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    Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first...
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    elements of the gathering. Philip embraced Protestantism in 1524 after a personal meeting with the theologian Philipp Melanchthon. He then helped suppress...
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    Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the site where, according to Philip Melanchthon, the Ninety-five Theses were posted by Martin Luther in 1517, launching...
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    the truth is not in us. In the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Philip Melanchthon elucidates the topic of salvation, teaching that mortal sin and the...
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    Philip Melanchthon, De locis communibus ratio. Augsburg [1593]. Philip Melanchthon, Institutiones rhetoricae. Wittenberg [1536]. Philip Melanchthon,...
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  • sharing his views publicly in 1517, followed by Andreas Karlstadt and Philip Melanchthon at Wittenberg, who promptly joined the new movement. In 1519, Huldrych...
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  • the end of the Thirty Years' War, the compromising spirit seen in Philip Melanchthon rose up again in the Helmstedt School and especially in theology of...
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    and Gospel). The controversy made the two theologians break apart. Philip Melanchthon taught that it was necessary to do good works, but they were an outgrowth...
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    the city, but Philip Melanchthon, who first mentioned the posting of the Theses, only mentioned the door of All Saints' Church. Melanchthon also claimed...
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  • the University of Wittenberg in Germany and its leading theologian Philip Melanchthon. It was identified as significant for its interests in natural philosophy...
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    to Martin Luther and his friend and fellow theologian / reformer Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), major author of the Evangelical Lutheran seminal theological...
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    of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse to marry a lady-in-waiting of his wife, Christine of Saxony. Philip solicited the approval of Luther, Melanchthon, and...
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    over the mounting disorder and violence of the reform movement. To Philip Melanchthon in 1524 he wrote: I know nothing of your church; at the very least...
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  • while for Melanchthon the words spoken during the establishment by Jesus only promised that his body and blood were received. Melanchthon rejected the...
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    Wittenberg, where in (1541) he was welcomed[clarification needed] by Philip Melanchthon. In Tübingen, Flacius was received into the house of Matthias Garbitius...
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    volumes, contains reprints of the collected works of John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, and Huldrych Zwingli, three of the leading Protestant reformers....
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  • Philippists (redirect from Melanchthonism)
    the latter half of the sixteenth century to the followers of Philipp Melanchthon. It probably originated among the opposite or Flacian party, and was...
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    man's salvation. He urged the separation of the High Lutheran party from Melanchthon (1557), got the Saxon dukes to oppose the Frankfurt Recess (1558) and...
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  • with a law called the Augsburg Interim. This was rejected by Philipp Melanchthon, because it did not ensure justification by faith as a fundamental doctrine...
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    Justus Jonas, Philip Melanchthon, Johannes Oecolampadius, Andreas Osiander, and Bernhard Rothmann participated in the meeting. If Philip wanted the meeting...
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  • caused by the knowledge of the love of God alone. In contrast, Philipp Melanchthon urged that repentance must precede faith and that knowledge of the moral...
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    Christ is in that person. Calvin rejected these views of Osiander, as did Melanchthon and Flacius. Flacius' opposing view was that God justifies us by Christ's...
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  • April 1531 to respond to the demands of the Confutation. In response, Philip Melanchthon wrote a lengthy and sustained argument both supporting the Augsburg...
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    October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. According to Philip Melanchthon, 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five...
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    presented Charles V with the Augsburg Confession, largely the work of Philip Melanchthon setting out the doctrines and practices of the church in the Protestant...
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    where he studied under Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). From Melanchthon he learned to shape his theological education, beginning...
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  • controversies arose among Lutherans due mostly to the teachings of Philip Melanchthon. Gnesio-Lutherans were profiled by defending Martin Luther's doctrine...
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    that Luther went too far, in expression at least. For Protestant historian Philip Schaff "It is one of his most vigorous and profound books, full of grand...
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    Testament". Neotestamentica. 17: 84–96. ISSN 0254-8356. JSTOR 43047851. Sigal, Philip. The Emergence of Contemporary Judaism, Part I and II: The Foundations of...
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    entered the university there. He was a student of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, the latter being a particular influence. When Cruciger returned to...
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