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The paper is devoted to the exposition of the Reformation’s roots of eloquence as the premise of contemporary idea of literacy. The eloqence is presented in perspective of Reformation’s pedagogy. The author based on historical source materials and reconstructed the idea of eloquence at the background of the thought of M. Luther, Ph. Melanchton and J. Sturm and their concepts of school education. He focused on hermeneutical principles of protestant tradition and it’s educational implications. In this perspective the eloquence determines the faith consciousness and the maturity of a human being. The Reformation’s idea of eloquence demands to view the contemporary education continuously in hermeneutical and language-oriented perspective.