Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians : : a reception of Greek patristic sources in the sixteenth century / / H. Ashley Hall.
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...
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| Superior document: | Refo500 Academic Studies ; Volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol, Connecticut : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English German |
| Series: | Refo500 academic studies ;
Volume 16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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| Summary: | 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 educatio |
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| ISBN: | 3666550673 3647550671 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | H. Ashley Hall. |