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All Blog Posts With Tag: Philip Melanchthon
Martin Luther’s Preface to the Qur’an (November 15, 2018)
The Qur'an was first translated into Latin in 1153, but the first latin translation published was in 1543 (and 1550) when Theodor Bibliander (1509-1564) published his latin translation of the Qur'an in Basle with the title "The lives and teaching of Muhammad, leader of the Saracrens, and of his successors, and […]
Related: Islam, James L. Boyce, Koran, Martin Luther, Mohammad, Muslim, Philip Melanchthon, Qur'an, Sarah Henrich, Theodor Bibliander
In Part 1: Burned Alive at the Stake of this Michael Servetus: Saint, Heretic, and Martyr series, I described the horrific execution of Michael Servetus. In Part 2, I will explain that John Calvin is guilty for the death of Michael Servetus, but this guilt is shared by the Geneva […]
In Melanchthon's Loci, he says that the belief that the Mass benefits others besides the recipient originated in Thomas' Summa, here's the quotation from Loci:
"All Masses are godless, therefore, except those by which consciences are encouraged for the strengthening of faith. A sacrifice is what we offer to God, but we do […]
Calvin: A Biography by Bruce Gordon (review) (April 6, 2010)
Prof. F. Bruce Gordon's "Calvin" (amazon) is a new biography of John Calvin released in 2009, which coincides to John Calvin's 500th birthday. I learned about the biography from the 2009 Desiring God National Conference: With Calvin in the Theater of G...