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Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
H Ashley Hall
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Hardback. Series: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5as). Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- a great philologist, pedagogue, and theologian of the Reformation -- used Greek patristic sources throughout his extensive career. The Cappadocian Fathers (here identified as Gregory Thaumaturgus, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa) were received through the medieval period to be exemplary theologians. In the hands of Melanchthon, they become tools to articulate the Evangelical-Lutheran theological position on justification by grace through faith alone, the necessity of formal education for theologians in literature and the natural sciences, the freedom of the will under divine grace, exemplars ... Read more
This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- a great philologist, pedagogue, and theologian of the Reformation -- used Greek patristic sources throughout his extensive career. The Cappadocian Fathers (here identified as Gregory Thaumaturgus, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa) were received through the medieval period to be exemplary theologians. In the hands of Melanchthon, they become tools to articulate the Evangelical-Lutheran theological position on justification by grace through faith alone, the necessity of formal education for theologians in literature and the natural sciences, the freedom of the will under divine grace, exemplars ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Refo500 Academic Studies (R5as)
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783525550670
SKU
V9783525550670
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About H Ashley Hall
Dr H. Ashley Hall is Assistant Professor of Theology at Creighton University.
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