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Abraham Calovius
Calovius, Abraham (1612–86), German Lutheran theologian. As a staunch defender of Lutheran orthodoxy he opposed G. Calixtus's policy for reuniting the Confessions. He also attacked Socinianism and Pietism.... Read more |
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Church Unions
CHURCH UNIONS AND REUNIONS A Decade of Mergers The 1930s saw a series of unions among Protestant groups, usually bringing together people of different ethnic backgrounds who shared a religious tradition. In 1931 members of the Lutheran Synod of Buffalo joined the Evangelical... Read more |
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Johann Bugenhagen
Bugenhagen, Johann (1485–1558), Lutheran theologian. He played a leading part in the organization of Lutheran Church life in N. Germany and Denmark. The ‘Brunswick Church Order’ of 1528 was mainly his work. In 1537 he went to Denmark; here he rearranged ecclesiastical affairs on... Read more |
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Martin Chemnitz
Chemnitz, Martin (1522–86), Lutheran theologian. He spent most of his life in Brunswick. He defended M. Luther's doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, though he deprecated further elaboration as to the mode of the Presence. He attacked the Council of Trent and wrote an... Read more |
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Matthias Flacius Illyricus
Flacius, Matthias (1520–75), also known from his birthplace as Illyricus, Lutheran theologian. He was appointed professor of Hebrew at Wittenberg in 1544. While apparently not a personal friend of M. Luther, he supported the Gnesio-Lutheran tendency. In 1548 he tried in vain to unite the... Read more |
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Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg
Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg , 1711-87, American Lutheran clergyman, b. Germany, educated at Göttingen and at Halle. He arrived (1742) in Pennsylvania to serve as pastor of several congregations in and near Philadelphia, but he soon became the leader of all the Lutheran groups in the... Read more |
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Lutherans
Lutherans Sources New Sweden.The first Lutherans in America were Swedes who assembled on the banks of the Delaware River in 1638 in the settlement of Sweden’s West India Company. New Sweden was served by a continuous line of ministers, the most famous of whom was... Read more |
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Hans Egede
Egede, Hans (1686–1758), the ‘Apostle of the Eskimos’. He went as a Lutheran missionary from Norway to Greenland in 1721. In 1736 he returned to Copenhagen, where he founded a seminary for missionaries to Greenland.... Read more |
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Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott (1715–69), German poet. He wrote many hymns which became popular with Lutherans and RCs. They include ‘Jesus lives! thy terrors now’.... Read more |
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Cornelis Jansen
Jansen, Cornelis (1585–1638) Dutch theologian. He studied problems raised for Catholics by Lutheran and Calvinist doctrine. He argued for a return to the views of Saint Augustine on grace and salvation. See also Jansenism... Read more |
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