Reformation
Philipp Melanchthon
1497 – 1560 · Germany
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Romans 5:1 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
Luther's closest collaborator and a brilliant young scholar, Melanchthon wrote the Augsburg Confession, the foundational statement of Lutheran belief, at age 33. Where Luther was fiery, Melanchthon was conciliatory, often working to find common ground with Catholics and other reformers alike.
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