Sophists in humanistic and reformation propaganda [PDF]
The article examines the topos of sophism and its content in written and visual texts of the late 15th - first half of the 16th centuries, primarily on the basis of dialogues and dramaturgical works, which occupied a special place in the urban communica ...
Zinaida LURIE
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Protestant theater of the 16–17th centuries as a historical and cultural phenomenon [PDF]
The article discusses the phenomenon of the 16–17th centuries Protestant theater as a unique feature of the age. The author discusses the main characteristic of drama and performances and features out several steps of development of the Protestant scene.
Lurie Zinaida Andreevna,
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«Instructions of the Visitors to Parishers in Electoral Saxony» by Philip Melanchthon: introductory article and the commented translation of the chapters «On everyday activities in churches» and «On schools» [PDF]
This publication is the first Russian translation of excerpts from Philip Melanchthon’s «Instructions». The text established the normative order (Ordnung), which should have been followed locally, both in terms of dogma (which covers a significant part ...
Zinaida Andreevna Lurie +1 more
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The Formation of the Evangelical Confession in Germany: Melanchthon and religious polemics in the middle of the 16th century [PDF]
The present article examines the formation of the evangelical denomination in Germany for fifteen years after the death of Martin Luther. The author analyses the relationship and dogmatic disagreements between Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, Melanchthon’
Natal’ya Aleksandrovna Berezhnaya
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Alles Schicksal? Der Himmel als astrologische Auskunftei im Luthertum der Frühen Neuzeit [PDF]
The article “All is Fortune? The sky as an astrology agency in the early modern time lutheranism” deals with attitude to astrology as part of the Lutheran intellectual culture of the 16–17th centuries.
Walter Sparn
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Was Karlstadt ‘Insane’ on Mosaic Law like Melanchthon said?
This article reviewed claims made by modern scholars Ford Lewis Battles and G.H.Williams, as well as charges made by Melanchthon, against Andreas Karlstadt (1486–1541) in regard to the imposition of Mosaic Law upon the civil realm.
Joel McDurmon
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At the conclusion of his De lege naturae apodictica methodus, a treatise on the law of nature, how it is grasped by the human mind, and how it coheres with the Decalogue, Niels Hemmingsen claims to have eschewed the use of theological sources in his ...
Hutchinson Eric J.
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Regulation of school work in the German rules of the confessional era and the first German schools in Moscow [PDF]
The article discusses the activities of Martin Luther and his associates in the field of educational development, namely, Luther’s justification for the necessity of opening schools and teaching children the basics of the Christian faith and consequently
Maria Alexandrovna Poliakova
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The Protestant reception both of Aristotle and of the concept of natural law have been the object of renewed attention. The present article aims at a cross-fertilization of these two recoveries: did a specifically Aristotelian approach to natural law ...
Svensson Manfred
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