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Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness - Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus of Rotterdam (Hardcover)
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Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness - Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus of Rotterdam (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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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 sharply opposed 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 debate
over 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 of proper 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
those concerned with Renaissance and Reformation history and
literature.
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