Philip Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education.

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Philip Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education. Edited by Sachiko Kusukawa. Translated by Christine F. Salazar. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xliii + 272 pp. $59.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

This volume offers thirty-one short works, most of them academic orations, that show Melanchthon in his role as Praeceptor Germaniae, the man who married humanist education to the Lutheran Reformation in the conviction that doing so was essential to the peace, order, and stability of both church and state. Though published ...

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