68 Facts About Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon stands next to Luther and John Calvin as a reformer, theologian, and moulder of Protestantism.

Philipp Melanchthon made his distinction between law and gospel the central formula for Lutheran evangelical insight.

Philipp Melanchthon was influenced by his great-uncle Johann Reuchlin, a Renaissance humanist; it was Reuchlin who suggested Philipp follow a custom common among humanists of the time and change his surname from "Schwartzerdt", into the Greek equivalent "Melanchthon".

Philipp Melanchthon was only eleven when in 1508 both his grandfather and father died within eleven days.

Philipp Melanchthon became a conventor in the contubernium and instructed younger scholars.

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Philipp Melanchthon studied the Scriptures, especially of Paul, and Evangelical doctrine.

Philipp Melanchthon argued that Luther rejected only papal and ecclesiastical practises which were at variance with Scripture.

Philipp Melanchthon presented the new doctrine of Christianity under the form of a discussion of the "leading thoughts" of the Epistle to the Romans.

Philipp Melanchthon then settled into the comparative quiet of his academic and literary labours.

Philipp Melanchthon's increasing fame gave occasion for prestigious invitations to Tubingen, France, and England but consideration of the elector caused him to refuse them.

Philipp Melanchthon played an important role in discussions concerning the Lord's Supper which began in 1531.

Philipp Melanchthon approved fully of the Wittenberg Concord sent by Bucer to Wittenberg, and at the instigation of the Landgrave of Hesse discussed the question with Bucer in Kassel, at the end of 1534.

Philipp Melanchthon eagerly laboured for an agreement on this question, for his patristic studies and the Dialogue of Johannes Oecolampadius had made him doubt the correctness of Luther's doctrine.

Philipp Melanchthon discussed Bucer's views with the most prominent adherents of Luther; but Luther himself would not agree to a mere veiling of the dispute.

Philipp Melanchthon repudiated the criticism of Cordatus in a letter to Luther and his other colleagues stating that he had never departed from their common teachings on this subject and in the Antinomian Controversy of 1537 Melanchthon was in harmony with Luther.

Philipp Melanchthon rejected the Augsburg Interim, which the emperor sought to force upon the defeated Protestants.

Philipp Melanchthon took part in a controversy with Stancaro, who held that Christ was our justification only according to his human nature.

Philipp Melanchthon was still a strong opponent of the Catholics, for it was by his advice that the Elector of Saxony declared himself ready to send deputies to a council to be convened at Trent, but only under the condition that the Protestants should have a share in the discussions, and that the Pope should not be considered as the presiding officer and judge.

Nevertheless, Philipp Melanchthon persevered in his efforts for the peace of the church, suggesting a synod of the Evangelical party and drawing up for the same purpose the Frankfurt Recess, which he defended later against the attacks of his enemies.

Philipp Melanchthon differed from John Calvin in emphasizing the relation of the Lord's Supper to justification.

Philipp Melanchthon viewed any veneration of saints rather critically but developed positive commentaries about Mary.

Consequently, Philipp Melanchthon opposed the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which in his days, although not dogma, was celebrated in several cities and had been approved at the Council of Basel in 1439.

Philipp Melanchthon declared that the Immaculate Conception was an invention of monks.

Philipp Melanchthon considered that a purposeful God had reasons to exhibit comets and eclipses.

Philipp Melanchthon was the first to print a paraphrased edition of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Basel, 1554.

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Philipp Melanchthon strengthened himself in almost uninterrupted praying and in listening to passages of Scripture.

Philipp Melanchthon was impelled by Luther to work for the Reformation; his own inclinations would have kept him a student.

Philipp Melanchthon wrote in 1520, "I would rather die than be separated from Luther", whom he afterward compared to Elijah, and called "the man full of the Holy Ghost".

Philipp Melanchthon was not said to lack personal courage, but rather he was said to be less of an aggressive than of a passive nature.

The distinction between Luther and Philipp Melanchthon is well brought out in Luther's letters to the latter :.

Philipp Melanchthon had an innate aversion to quarrels and discord; yet, often he was very irritable.

Philipp Melanchthon never strove for a reconciliation with Catholicism at the price of pure doctrine.

Philipp Melanchthon attributed more value to the external appearance and organization of the Church than Luther did, as can be seen from his whole treatment of the "doctrine of the church".

Philipp Melanchthon believed that the relation of the church to God was that the church held the divine office of the ministry of the Gospel.

Philipp Melanchthon did not want a church altogether independent of the state, but rather, in agreement with Luther, he believed it the duty of the secular authorities to protect religion and the church.

Philipp Melanchthon looked upon the consistories as ecclesiastical courts which therefore should be composed of spiritual and secular judges, for to him the official authority of the church did not lie in a special class of priests, but rather in the whole congregation, to be represented therefore not only by ecclesiastics, but by laymen.

Philipp Melanchthon in advocating church union did not overlook differences in doctrine for the sake of common practical tasks.

Philipp Melanchthon was, alongside other luminaries such as Erasmus, an important figure in the movement sometimes called Christian humanism, which has exerted a lasting influence upon scientific life in Germany.

Philipp Melanchthon's works were not always new and original, but they were clear, intelligible, and answered their purpose.

Philipp Melanchthon's style is natural and plain, better in Latin and Greek than in German.

Philipp Melanchthon was not without natural eloquence, although his voice was weak.

Philipp Melanchthon wrote numerous treatises dealing with education and learning that present some of his key thoughts on learning, including his views on the basis, method, and goal of reformed education.

Philipp Melanchthon believed that the disciplinary system of the classical "seven liberal arts", and the sciences studied in the higher faculties could not encompass the new revolutionary discoveries of the age in terms of either content or method.

Philipp Melanchthon expanded the traditional categorization of science in several directions, incorporating not only history, geography and poetry but the new natural sciences in his system of scholarly disciplines.

Philipp Melanchthon kept to the practical, and cared little for connection of the parts, so his Loci were in the form of isolated paragraphs.

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Philipp Melanchthon's views differed from Luther's only in some modifications of ideas.

Philipp Melanchthon looked upon the law as not only the correlate of the Gospel, by which its effect of salvation is prepared, but as the unchangeable order of the spiritual world which has its basis in God himself.

Philipp Melanchthon furthermore reduced Luther's much richer view of redemption to that of legal satisfaction.

Philipp Melanchthon did not draw from the vein of mysticism running through Luther's theology, but emphasized the ethical and intellectual elements.

In ethics Philipp Melanchthon preserved and renewed the tradition of ancient morality and represented the Protestant conception of life.

Philipp Melanchthon's books bearing directly on morals were chiefly drawn from the classics, and were influenced not so much by Aristotle as by Cicero.

Philipp Melanchthon therefore made no sharp distinction between natural and revealed morals.

Philipp Melanchthon further stated that whatever is looked for in the words of Scripture, outside of the literal sense, is only dogmatic or practical application.

Philipp Melanchthon's commentaries are not grammatical, but are full of theological and practical matter, confirming the doctrines of the Reformation, and edifying believers.

Philipp Melanchthon was the constant assistant of Luther in his translation of the Bible, and both the books of the Maccabees in Luther's Bible are ascribed to him.

Philipp Melanchthon's was the first Protestant attempt at a history of dogma, Sententiae veterum aliquot patrum de caena domini and especially De ecclesia et auctoritate verbi Dei.

Philipp Melanchthon exerted a wide influence in the department of homiletics, and has been regarded as the author, in the Protestant church, of the methodical style of preaching.

Philipp Melanchthon himself keeps entirely aloof from all mere dogmatizing or rhetoric in the Annotationes in Evangelia, the Conciones in Evangelium Matthaei, and in his German sermons prepared for George of Anhalt.

Philipp Melanchthon never preached from the pulpit; and his Latin sermons were prepared for the Hungarian students at Wittenberg who did not understand German.

In philosophy Philipp Melanchthon was the teacher of the whole German Protestant world.

Philipp Melanchthon started from scholasticism; but with the contempt of an enthusiastic Humanist he turned away from it and came to Wittenberg with the plan of editing the complete works of Aristotle.

Philipp Melanchthon was dwarfish, misshapen, and physically weak, although he is said to have had a bright and sparkling eye, which kept its colour till the day of his death.

Philipp Melanchthon was never in perfectly sound health, and managed to perform as much work as he did only by reason of the extraordinary regularity of his habits and his great temperance.

Philipp Melanchthon set no great value on money and possessions; his liberality and hospitality were often misused in such a way that his old faithful Swabian servant had sometimes difficulty in managing the household.

Philipp Melanchthon called his home "a little church of God", always found peace there, and showed a tender solicitude for his wife and children.

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Philipp Melanchthon never allowed himself or others to exceed the bounds of nobility, honesty, and decency.

Philipp Melanchthon was very sincere in the judgment of his own person, acknowledging his faults even to opponents like Flacius, and was open to the criticism even of such as stood far below him.

Philipp Melanchthon laid great stress upon prayer, daily meditation on the Bible, and attendance of public service.