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Refo500 is an international platform for knowledge, expertise, ideas, products, and events specializing in the 500-year legacy of the Reformation. Refo500 connects the time of the Reformation and our time. It helps to understand the meaning of the Reformation, to discover its relevance, and to see and experience its lasting influence. It pursues this venture in a contemporary and fresh manner, with an open attitude towards the past and the present, church, culture, and society.

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht is an official project partner of Refo500 and has launched this academic book series within Refo500 focusing on the religious, theological, political, social, legal, and cultural dimensions of the Reformation. In the series, monographs and thematic collections are published in English, German, and French. The series is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, international cooperation, and a high scholarly level.

Philip Melanchthon Augustine of Hippo and the Cappadocians and Martin Luther A Reception of Greek on Original Sin and Patristic Sources in the Justification of the Sinner Sixteenth Century by Jairzinho Lopes Pereira by H. Ashley Hall Pereira demonstrates how Augustine The Cappadocian Fathers (here came to break with the patristic identified as Gregory Thaumaturgus, soteriology and anthropological Basil of Caesarea, Gregory theology and adopted the radicalism Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa) of grace with which he faced the were received through the medieval theologians associated with the period to be exemplary theologians. fifth-century Pelagianis. It was In the hands of Melanchthon, they precisely that radicalism of grace become tools to articulate the that made of Augustine Luther’s Evangelical-Lutheran theological position on justification by grace through favourite theologian. The same radicalism was adopted by Luther in his faith alone, the necessity of formal education for theologians in literature and opposition to the recentiores doctores, the Nominalist theologians. Without the natural sciences, the freedom of the will under divine grace, exemplars for overlooking the crucial role played by the Pauline corpus, the author says bishops and even princes, and as models of Attic Greek grammar and biblical that Augustine’s anti-Pelagian writings were at the core of the young Luther’s exegesis for university students. The book is organized around Melanchthon’s soteriological and anthropological claims and were the driving force behind use of Cappadocian works against his opponents. Luther’s cry for reformation.

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Doctrina schola vitae Calvin and Luther Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) The Continuing Relationship als Schriftausleger edited by R. Ward Holder by Boris Wagner-Peterson The reforms begun by Luther and Calvin Zacharias Ursinus is widely known as the main became two of the largest and most author of the Heidelberg Catechism.This vol- influential movements to arise in the ume analyzes for the first time the late period sixteenth century, but frequently, these two of Zacharias Ursinus’ theology on the basis of movements are seen and defined as polar his lecture on Isaiah. The author focuses on opposites – one’s theology is Reformed or the methodology, hermeneutics, and theology Lutheran, one is a member of a Reformed or implicated in this lecture. The results are Lutheran congregation. Historically, these compared to 16th-century commentaries and theological concepts, offering were two very separate movements – but more remains to be understood that important new insights into exegesis and theology of the period. German text. can best be analyzed in the context of the other. 431p, Refo500 Academic Studies 13, June 2013 235p, Refo500 Academic Studies 12, September 2013 Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550557, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550571, $123.00. Special Offer $99.00

Der Erlebnisraum Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians Lutherstadt Wittenberg edited by Mark Mattes Genese, Entwicklung und Bestand eines protestantischen This collection of essays examines twentieth-century Lutheran theologians, including European and North American voices. Each essay provides an Erinnerungsortes overview of the life and thought of important confessional Lutherans who by Silvio Reichelt shaped theology with an ecumenical, world-wide impact. The focus here is Silvio Reichelt shows how the “Lutherstadt” on earlier twentieth-century figures, selected as per the spirit of Karl Barth’s Wittenberg shaped our memory through its contention “lest we forget where contemporary theology came from.” role as historical area of knowledge, political 344p, Refo500 Academic Studies 10, July 2013 ideology, and sacral faith. Remembering Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550458, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 history is not only reconstructing the past, as the author shows, but can be characterized as a process of overwriting. German text. Luthergedächtnis 1817 bis 2017 448p, Refo500 Academic Studies 11, May 2013 by Hartmut Lehmann Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550540, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 There is a distinct German tradition in commemorating the achievements of The Myth of the Reformation the German reformer Martin Luther. For example, 1817 and 1917 come to edited Peter Opitz mind, when huge celebrations were On June 8–10, 2011, the first conference of RefoRC, the Reformation Research staged to remember the 95 Theses, or the Consortium (www.reforc.com), was held at the University of Zurich. The anniversaries of Luther’s birth in 1883, 1933, overall title “The Myth of the Reformation” encouraged critical perspectives on and 1983. This volume presents twenty traditional beliefs about the sixteenth-century Reformation(s). This volume studies that discuss the specific character of provides a selection of the papers that were presented at the conference. these celebrations. German text.

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Philip Melanchthon Melanchthon und die Reformierte Tradition Theologian in Classroom, Confession, and Controversy edited by Andreas J. Beck by Robert Kolb, Nicole Kuropka, Irene Dingel and Timothy J. Wengert Andreas J. Beck presents the contributions of the international conference on “Melanchthon and the Reformed Tradition.” The contributions show that These twelve essays by international scholars investigate Melanchthon’s the influence of Philip Melanchthon on Reformed theology, spirituality, and theological activities as teacher, confessor of the faith, and defender of his education can hardly be overestimated. This is not only true for Germany, doctrine and ecclesiastical policies as they developed within the context of his but also for Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Hungary, where service of society and church. Melanchthon maintained a large network of scholars, educators, and church 288p, Refo500 Academic Studies 7, December 2012 leaders. He was not only the “Teacher of Germany,” but also the “Teacher of Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550472, $126.00. Special Offer $101.00 Europe.” German text.

270p, illus, Refo500 Academic Studies 6, July 2013 Die Bereitung zum Sterben Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550311, $116.00. Special Offer $93.00 Studien zu den frühen reformatorischen Sterbebüchern by Luise Schottroff Luise Schottroff summarizes the history of theological writings on the prepara- The Irenic Calvinism of Daniel Kałaj (d. 1681) tion for dying in the 16th century. Luther’s “Sermon On Preparing To Die” A Study in the History and Theology of the Polish-Lithuanian (1519) was widely commented on by contemporary theologians. German text. Reformation 142p, Refo500 Academic Studies 5, October 2012 by Dariusz M. Bryćko Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550380, $84.00. Special Offer $68.00 Daniel Kałaj was a Polish Reformer of Hungarian background, trained by some of the most brilliant Reformed theologians of 17th-century Europe. Wrongly accused of “Calvinoarianism” by Catholic authorities, he became the first Polish Covenant, Causality, and Law Protestant minister to receive a sentence of capital punishment. He escaped by A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus fleeing to Lithuania, where he wrote his best-known work, A Friendly Dialogue between an Evangelical Minister and a Roman Catholic Priest. by Jordan J. Ballor Wolfgang Musculus (1497–1563) is perhaps the earliest Reformed theologian 157p, illus, Refo500 Academic Studies 4, October 2012 to give the topic of the covenant a separate and distinct treatment. By focusing on Musculus’ theology, this is the first full-scale study to place Musculus’ Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550465, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 theology within its broader intellectual context. 270p Refo500 Academic Studies 3, May 2012 Was there a Lutheran Metaphysics? Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550366, $112.00. Special Offer $90.00 The Interpretation of communicatio idiomatum in Early Modern Lutheranism Counsel and Conscience by Joar Haga Lutheran Casuistry and Moral Reasoning after the Reformation Joar Haga traces the Lutheran doctrine of communicatio idiomatum, the by Benjamin T.G. Mayes exchange of properties between the natures of Christ, as it developed in the In Lutheran Germany of the post-Reformation era (ca. 1580-1750), a genre of 16th and early 17th century. Regarding it as the nerve of his soteriology, Luther pastoral, ethical writings arose that consisted in casuistry and in topically or stressed the intimacy of the two natures in Christ to such a degree that it thematically related theological counsels. This volume shows that this casuistry threatened to end the peaceful relationship between theology and philosophy. literature was intended to instruct and comfort the consciences of Christians. 297p, Refo500 Academic Studies 2, June 2012 250p, illus, Refo500 Academic Studies 1, September 2011 Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550373, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9783525550274, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 v

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