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Subject Adiaphora
  • Summary: Joachim Westphal was a gnesio-Lutheran theologian and Superintendent in Hamburg. A major opponent of the Interims of Augsburg and Leipzig, he argued that Catholic liturgical practices were not adiaphora (morally indifferent acts that were either required nor prohibited), but needed to be rejected completely.
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    Brevis comprehensio argumentorum, quibis seruitus ferenda in caeremonijs a papistis per eorum ministros imposita improbatur

    Westphal, Joachim, 1510 or 1511-1574
    Summary: Joachim Westphal was a gnesio-Lutheran theologian and Superintendent in Hamburg. A major opponent of the Interims of Augsburg and Leipzig, he argued that Catholic liturgical practices were not adiaphora (morally indifferent acts that were either required nor prohibited), but needed to be rejected completely.
    Date Issued or Published
    1549
    Collection
    Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    Summary: Joachim Westphal was a gnesio-Lutheran theologian and Superintendent in Hamburg. A major opponent of the Interims of Augsburg and Leipzig, he argued that Catholic liturgical practices were not adiaphora (morally indifferent acts that were either required nor prohibited), but needed to be rejected completely.
  • Summary: Letter by a counsel of preachers in the city of Hamburg to Philipp Melanchthon regarding the adiaphoristic controversy regarding the re-introduction of some Catholic elements into the liturgy, which Melanchthon viewed as harmless and permissible. Melanchthon's reply is also included in this short booklet.
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    De rebus adiaphoris epistola concionatorum Hamburgensium ad D. Philippum Melanthonem, & responsio eiusdem

    Summary: Letter by a counsel of preachers in the city of Hamburg to Philipp Melanchthon regarding the adiaphoristic controversy regarding the re-introduction of some Catholic elements into the liturgy, which Melanchthon viewed as harmless and permissible. Melanchthon's reply is also included in this short booklet.
    Date Issued or Published
    1549
    Collection
    Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    Summary: Letter by a counsel of preachers in the city of Hamburg to Philipp Melanchthon regarding the adiaphoristic controversy regarding the re-introduction of some Catholic elements into the liturgy, which Melanchthon viewed as harmless and permissible. Melanchthon's reply is also included in this short booklet.
  • Summary: Open letter to an anonymous pastor justifying Matthias Flacius' opposition to the Leipzig interim, and Melanchthon's willingness to compromise with the Catholic Church on matters of liturgy.
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    Epistola apologetica Matthiae Flacij Illyrici ad quendam Pastorem : Item Duo Somnia Philippi

    Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575
    Summary: Open letter to an anonymous pastor justifying Matthias Flacius' opposition to the Leipzig interim, and Melanchthon's willingness to compromise with the Catholic Church on matters of liturgy.
    Date Issued or Published
    1549
    Collection
    Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    Summary: Open letter to an anonymous pastor justifying Matthias Flacius' opposition to the Leipzig interim, and Melanchthon's willingness to compromise with the Catholic Church on matters of liturgy.
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