Prior to that, the ideas over authority, baptism, and communalism, as well as on other more theological doctrines, circulated and were discussed by all the thinkers and reformers of the period. Only after the Great Peasants' War of 1525 and the Confessio Augustana (Augsburg Confession) of 1530 did the Lutherans, with the support of the Saxon princes, gradually establish an institutionalised Church. The idea of a radical Reformation can only be viewed in relation to that of the magisterial one and the latter did not exist in the early 1520s. Thus, the early years of the Reformation cannot be boxed or labelled within definite categories that work for the later period, for instance, radical and magisterial. Sects and churches proliferated in this period influenced by Humanism, spiritualism, anticlericalism, sacramentarianism, mysticism, millennialism, Biblicism, communitarian visions all of these were conceived as acts of revolt against the old Church and the new. Beyond the magisterial Reformation, in the early sixteenth century, Europe witnessed religious mutations and consequent variations of intellectual and social impulses as well as Christian motifs that brought about a ferment of so-called radicalised theologies.
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