Stoffel Muller

Stoffel Muller (1776 – 3 August 1833) was a Dutchman who led a small Protestant sect in the early nineteenth century.

Known as the Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters, the sect was later said to have had a communist ideology; it resisted civil government and held property commonly.

According to family lore he fell ill in Emden on one of his journeys and had to stay there a while to convalesce; during that time he came under the influence of the Lutheran Pietism.

[1] That same year, Muller, with Leer and the Valks, formed the congregation (they saw it as a Christelijke Broedergemeente, an "Apostolic Brethren Association" modeled on the early Christians[5]) which later became known as the Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters, whose ideals were based on the Sermon on the Mount;[1] later studies proposed that this was a kind of communist ideology held by many Protestant sects of the time.

The crucifixion is the single most important act of love, and the Sermon on the Mount provided the necessary guidance for life on earth.