Biserica Ortodoxă în viziunea lui Martin Luther: disputa de la Leipzig (1519)
By the mid-16th century, besides the heavy confrontation between the Catholic Church and Luther, there had been some attempts to connect Lutherans with the Orthodox, the Jews and even with the Turks. The most promising of all seemed to be the relationship with the Orthodox Church. How could that be...
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| Language: | English |
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Editura Universității Adventus
2018-07-01
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| Series: | TheoRhēma |
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| Online Access: | https://publications.uadventus.ro/index.php/thrh/article/view/121 |
| Summary: | By the mid-16th century, besides the heavy confrontation between the Catholic Church and Luther, there had been some attempts to connect Lutherans with the Orthodox, the Jews and even with the Turks. The most promising of all seemed to be the relationship with the Orthodox Church. How could that be? The answer might be found in some congruent doctrines between the Lutherans and the Orthodox. This is, at least, how Martin Luther saw and expressed it. Certainly, Luther was sincere in his attempts to evangelize the Orthodox East, as well as the Jews and the Turks, according to his convictions. With the translation of the Augsburg Confession into the Greek language, in 1559, Philip Melanchthon expected great results. However, the Jews, the Turks and the Orthodox did not join Protestantism.
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| ISSN: | 1842-0613 2784-2665 |