This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) used Greek
patristic sources throughout his extensive career. The author places Melanchthon within the
context of the patristic reception of his time. Moreover an appendix offers a sketch of the
Cappadocian canon of the sixteenth century with notation of the particular sources for
Melanchthon's knowledge and the references to these works in modern scholarly sources. This
work shows Melanchthon at work to reveal the consistent manner and Evangelical-Lutheran method
by which he used patristic material to proclaim Christ and his benefits.Melanchthon at work
with his sources
