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Petr Chelčický

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Also known as Peter Helchitsky, Peter of Chelčice, Khelsicus, Peter Chelčický

15th century Bohemian Christian radical

Person · Open Library

Born
1390
Died
ca. 1460
Works
21

Top works

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  • Postilla
  • Petra Chelčického Postilla
  • Si︠e︡tʹ vi︠e︡ry
  • Petra Chelčického Siť víry

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CZ
Active from
1938-03-07
Active to
2014-09-28

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Quotes

  • He who obeys God needs no other authority.
  • Our faith obliges us to bind wounds, not to make blood run.
  • Wars and other kinds of murder have their beginning in the hatred of the enemy and in the unwillingness to be patient with evil. Their root is in intemperate self-love and in immoderate affection for temporal possessions. These conflicts are brought into this world because men do not trust the Son of God enough to abide by his commandments.
  • Facts witness to the reality that [Christians] have abandoned God, that they have entered the world and become one with the world. Whatever the world considers praiseworthy – vanity, comfort, wealth, fancy notions, blasphemies – the Christians, too, praise with one accord, quite blatantly without shame and without conscience. We can find with difficulty one man in a thousand who does not conform himself to the world.

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Works in European collections

5 objects attributed to Petr Chelčický, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana