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Peace, Order and the Glory of God: Secular Authority and the Church in the Thought of Luther and Melanchthon, 1518-1559 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Peace, Order and the Glory of GodPresents a comparative study of the development of the thought of Luther and Melanchthon, on the role of secular magistrates in the church that sees essential agreement between them despite differences of argumentation.
Full description- Publisher: Brill
- Published: 30 October 2005
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Christian Theology
- ISBN 13: 9789004147164 ISBN 10: 9004147160
- Sales rank: 1,298,515
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Full description for Peace, Order and the Glory of God
This volume is the first attempt to bring together in a comparative study all the evidence concerning the development of the ideas of Luther and Melanchthon on the cura religionis of secular magistrates. Besides yielding a more complete historical narrative than has hitherto been available, this approach has made it possible to show (among other things) that Luther's ideas on the subject developed and changed over time in tandem with developments and changes in Melanchthon's ideas and in response to the same historical pressures. Where past studies have tended to emphasize the differences in their thinking, this one demonstrates their essential agreement and considers their common worries about the dangers inherent in magisterial responsibility for the church.
