Luther vs. the Lutherans (and Catholics)
Nicholas A. Cumming
Abstract This article examines the reception and authority of Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon in Francis Turretin’s (1623–1687) Institutio Theologiae Elencticae (1679–1685). Scholarship on Reformers seventeenth-century Calvinism has continued to grow I argue that Turretin utilized both fluid diverse ways. In particular, Melanchthon, alongside being authorities against Roman Catholicism, were also used as evidence “innovations” Lutherans. For Turretin, two God’s prophets sent at Reformation Catholics Lutherans needed return “pure” Reformed doctrine illustrated by Melanchthon. Though these not only sources for they substantial witnesses Lutheran Catholic innovations post-Reformation period. Ultimately more than Lutheran.
Church History and Religious Culture