Defending faith
Subtitle: Lutheran responses to Andreas Osiander's doctrine of justification, 1551-1559
By: Timothy J. Wengert
Series: Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation = -- Studies in the late Middle Ages, humanism and the Reformation -- 65; Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation -- 65.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9783161517983
Subjects: Justification (Christian theology); Influence; Church controversies; Theology; Reformation; History of doctrines; Lutheran Church; History
Description: 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.--Back of dust jacket.
Notes: "Bibliography of anti-Osiander tracts": p. [431]-443.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [444]-453) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Why some pastors should not become professors : the origins of the Osiandrian controversy --; title: Protesting Osiander (1551-1552) : how Lutherans fight in public --; title: Debating the basics in Lutheran doctrine : "justification by grace, through faith, on account of Christ" --; title: True Lutherans, all : Joachim Mörlin, Matthias Flacius and Nicholas Gallus against the "Prussian gods" --; title: Johannes Brenz and Philip Melanchthon against Osiander : differentiated consensus in the sixteenth century? --; title: The authoritative Luther for and against Osiander --; title: Melanchthon's theological response to Osiander --; title: Writing against Osiander : a bibliographic essay.