Timothy J. Wengert

Defending Faith

Lutheran Responses to Andreas Osiander's Doctrine of Justification, 1551-1559
[Den Glauben verteidigen. Lutherische Antworten auf Andreas Osianders Rechtfertigungslehre, 1551-1559]
2012. XIV, 468 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-158603-3
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Summary
When in 1550 Andreas Osiander (1498-1552) advocated a different understanding of the central Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith alone, most other Lutheran churches in Germany rejected his stance, producing nearly one hundred opposing tracts. Timothy J. Wengert examines these reactions as a way of describing the theological side of confessionalization in Lutheran lands.

Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation (SMHR)