Philip Melanchthon on Continuation of spiritual gifts

No position located in this corpus

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Nothing found. Neither the Augsburg Confession nor the Apology raises the question of whether tongues, prophecy or healing continue, and the Loci passages read this run do not either. This is the first kind of blank — an unsearched gap, not a considered silence. The sixteenth-century argument he was in was about enthusiasm and private revelation among the Anabaptists, which is adjacent but is not the question this locus asks.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Luther's colleague at Wittenberg and the Reformation's systematizer. He wrote the first Protestant systematic theology (Loci Communes, 1521), drafted the Augsburg Confession (1530) and its Apology (1531), and then revised his own work far enough that the Formula of Concord condemned the later version seventeen years after his death. This entry rests on the Augsburg Confession read in Latin and English — Part I less Articles VI-VIII and XIV-XVI, plus Part II Articles XXII-XXIV and XXVIII — on the opening articles of the Apology in English, and on the successive editions of the Loci through Latin sentences preserved by Schaff and Bente; no edition of the Loci itself was read.