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Caspar Schwenckfeld’S Commentary On The Augsburg Confession: A Translation And Critical Introduction, Fred A. Grater
Caspar Schwenckfeld’S Commentary On The Augsburg Confession: A Translation And Critical Introduction, Fred A. Grater
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The purpose of this thesis is to present a scholarly English translation, with appropriate background matter and historico-theological material, of Caspar von Schwenckfeld’s Commentary on the Augsburg Confession, written sometime during or after Autumn, 1531. There is a brief biographical chapter, as well as short chapters on Schwenckfeld’s relationship with Luther and Melanchthon, and a synopsis of Schwenckfeld’s theology, with special emphasis on themes presented in this Commentary (religious liberty, concept of the Church). The text of Document 103 of the Corpus Schwenckfeldianorum (Vol. III, pp. 862-940, No. 58 in the so-called “P” Epistolar) is translated with notes and …