Hans Denck Beliefs

Hans Denck Hans Denck (1500-1527) born at Habachin in Upper Bavaria. Denck was a great leader of the South German Anabaptists. He was a very educated man. Hans studied at the University of Ingolstadt, and also studied at the University of Basel. Hans knew several languages, including Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. For awhile he was editor for Cratander of Basel, and also later editor to Valentine Curio. Hans had began to question the ways of the Lutherans especially on the basis of justification of Faith, “Which seemed to guarantee the standing of a believer with God regardless of the character of his life. Denck's whole emphasis was put instead on discipleship to Jesus” Hans also asked questions such as, How God reveals himself in the world he created, while he is not changing and is eternal, when the world is transitory and temporal. Hans was brought before the city council, He was said to have had conversations on several different accounts with several people, that had led the people to doubt his doctrinal soundness, so the city council decided to banished him. Hans Denke was banned from Nürnberg for the rest of his life, even though he wasn’t an Anabaptist. Hans had to promise not to come within a 10 mile radius of the city. Which means he was also banished from his Wife and Children as well. And so, he found …show more content…
From there he went on to Basel. Hans was tired of living the life of a fugitive, so he wrote to the Basel reformer and begged for permission to settle in the city of Basel. The Reformer wanted some written proof that Denke would recant his Anabaptist views. “Denke provided a statement of belief which Oecolampadius (the reformer) published 2 years later. But it was no recantation, as the reformer claimed it would be. Denke had not changed his basic position. He had been pained by the sharpness of of disagreements between the major reformers and the Anabaptists, and wanted to find some way of