Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians - H Ashley Hall Gebunden

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 proclai m Christ and his benefits.Melanchthon at work with his sources