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Zusatztext ... an erudite contribution to Reformation studies ... A book to be read on holiday or study leave. Klappentext This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melanchthon! so often pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther! and more "Erasmian" than Lutheran in his thought! was! at least in his theological methods and views! not Erasmian at all! but in fact sharplyopposed to Erasmus. Author Timothy J. Wengert builds his case largely on the basis of Melanchthon's Scholia on the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians! employing the critically important but seldom used second edition of 1528! which was produced in the aftermath of Luther and Erasmus's famous debateover the free will. Wengert also draws on a wide range of other contemporary sources! many of them well known but! as he argues! frequently misunderstood. Throughout this analysis he subjects a wide range of the secondary literature to sharp critical review. From the vantage point of a relatively narrow exegetical dispute! the book deals with a number of important topics: the complicated and elusive relationships between humanism and the Reformation! Erasmus and Luther! Erasmus and Melanchthon! and Melanchthon and Luther; the theological issues ofproper biblical interpretation! of free will! and of divine and human righteousness; and the hotly contested social problem of political order. Human Freedom! Christian Righteousness will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Reformation theology! but to a broader audience of thoseconcerned with Renaissance and Reformation history and literature. Zusammenfassung This book argues that Philip Melanchthon, conventionally pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther, and more "Erasmian" than a Lutheran theologian should have been, was, at least theologically, not Erasmian at all, but in fact sharply anti-Erasmus. Wengert draws largely on Melanchthon's Scholia on the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians as well as on a range of other contemporary sources to address a number of important questions, including the complicated and elusive relationship between humanism and the Reformation and the issues of proper biblical interpretation of free will, of divine and human righteousness, and of political order....
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In the 1520s, a battle raged between Luther and Erasmus over the freedom of the will. This book demonstrates that Philip Melanchthon - hardly a silent observer in the fray - was actively involved, especially in his 1528 commentary on Colossians. He rejected Erasmus's position while developing an independent, but compatible stance to Luther's own.
