21 September 2015 A.D. Dr. Lee Gatiss—two new books on Philip Melanchthon
21 September 2015 A.D. Dr. Lee Gatiss—two new books on Philip Melanchthon Gatiss, Lee. “Two new books on Melanchthon.” Lee Gatiss. 21 Sept 2015. https://leegatiss.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/two-new-books-on-melanchthon/ . Accessed 2015. Two new books on Melanchthon A review of two recent books on the Protestant Reformer, Philip Melanchthon One particular great thinker from the Reformation period has been blessed recently by two new monographs. Timothy Wengert’s Philip Melanchthon, Speaker of the Reformation: Wittenberg’s Other Reformer is a collection of 13 articles and chapters published in various places over the last twenty years or so. Professor Wengert is a Lutheran scholar in very high standing, and the contributions here are first rate, covering aspects of Melanchthon’s theology — such as his annotations on Romans, his patristic exegesis, his use of Augustine, and his contribution to Luther’s argument with Erasmus over free will — as well as...