Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation. By John Schofield
John Schofield's Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation is based on research which contributed to the author's doctoral thesis (Newcastle, 2003), which examined the failure of the spread of Lutheranism during the Henrician reformation. The work concentrates on one of the chief arch...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 316-319 |
| Review of: | Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation (Aldershot, Hants [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2006) (Löwe, J. Andreas)
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| Summary: | John Schofield's Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation is based on research which contributed to the author's doctoral thesis (Newcastle, 2003), which examined the failure of the spread of Lutheranism during the Henrician reformation. The work concentrates on one of the chief architects of Lutheranism during its first phase of confessionalization, the Bretten humanist Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560). The work falls into three distinctive parts, considering in turn Melanchthon's life and thought, his relationship with English reformers in the period leading up to 1545, and the reception of his thought during the Edwardine reformation and beyond., In the absence of a contemporary English biography of Melanchthon mirroring Martin Brecht's magisterial three-volume Martin Luther (trans. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln111 |