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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Witnesses and Heroes of the Reformation, Or, Brief Sketches of the Lives of Luther, Melancthon and Their Compeers
Author: Luther's lives
Author: Elizabeth VandiverPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152612064X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than four hundred and fifty years. The first of these is written after Luther’s death, when it was rumoured that demons had seized the Reformer on his deathbed and dragged him off to Hell. In response to these rumours, Luther’s friend and colleague, Philip Melanchthon wrote and published a brief encomium of the Reformer in 1548. A completely new translation of this text appears in this book. It was in response to Melanchthon’s work that Johannes Cochlaeus completed and published his own monumental life of Luther in 1549, which is translated and made available in English for the first time in this volume. Such is the detail and importance of Cochlaeus’s life of Luther that for an eyewitness account of the Reformation – and the beginnings of the Catholic Counter-Reformation – there is simply no other historical document to compare.
Meet Martin Luther
Author: Anthony SelvaggioPublisher: Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN: 1601785232
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Martin Luther (1483–1546) contributed so much to the development of Western civilization that it is not overstatement to declare that he changed the world as he set the Protestant Reformation in motion five hundred years ago. In this brief sketch, you will learn about the exciting historical facts and fascinating events surrounding this Reformer’s influential life. Luther’s story provides a picture of the gospel—an object lesson of faith, grace, and the forgiveness that can be found only in Jesus Christ. Table of Contents: 1. The Young Luther 2. The Crisis and the Cowl 3. Wittenberg and the Word of God 4. The Dawn of the Reformation 5. The Heat of Battle 6. The Diet of Worms 7. From Wartburg to Wittenburg 8. Leader, Husband, and Theologian 9. A Church is Born 10. The Latter Years
Martin Luther
Author: Henry Eyster JacobsThe Life of Luther
Author: Martin LutherThe Life of Martin Luther, the German Reformer
Author: Gustav Ferdinand Leopold KönigPublisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Meeting Melanchthon
Author: Scott Leonard KeithPublisher: New Reformation Publications
ISBN: 1945978716
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Most scholars consider Melanchthon to be a Reformation enigma. He, the developer of the Reformation doctrine of forensic justification, is contrarily condemned as a synergist. Known well as the Protestant preceptor of Germany, he was Martin Luther's lifelong friend, colleague, teacher of Greek, and fellow reformer. Upon arriving at Wittenberg, Melanchthon was a theologian neither by trade nor by training. He was a classically trained expert in classical languages, neo-Latin poet, textbook author, Greek scholar, humanist, and above all, an educator Though he was offered a doctorate on several occasions, he was not a doctor of theology. Yet his influence on the protestant reformation of the 16th century is profound, both through the Loci Communes (the first Lutheran systematic theology) and the Augsburg Confession both of which came from his pen. Dr. Scott Keith, who has spent much time studying and translating this great reformer, has written this short biography by way of introduction. Also, Melanchthon speaks for himself in fresh translations of his work.
The Life and Letters of Martin Luther
Author: Preserved SmithPublisher:
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Category : Reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Life of Martin Luther Gathered from His Own Writings
Author: Jules MicheletThe life of Philip Melancthon
Author: Francis Augustus CoxPublisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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