This article presents the results of research on the correspondence of Philip Melanchthon to Lithuanian magnates. Letters to Nicholas Radziwill the Black and Albert Gasztold on the one hand, praise the Renaissance lords, and on the other hand constitute a source of knowledge of the history of the Church and spiritual leaders of the Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The article also contains letters translated from the Latin language into Polish.
Artykuł prezentuje wyniki badań nad korespondencją Filipa Melanchtona do Jana Łaskiego. Listy to z jednej strony osobista korespondencja, z drugiej źródło poznania: historii Kościoła, najważniejszych duchowych liderów reformacji, współpracowników i różnic teologicznych XVI w. Artykuł zawiera tłumaczenie listów i pism z łaciny na język polski.
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This article presents the results of research on the correspondence of Philip Melanchton to John a Lasco. Letters, the one hand are personal reformer’s correspondence, on the other hand is the source of knowledge of the history of the Church and the most importents leaders of the reformations, collaborators, and theological diversities of the 16th century. Article contains letters and other Melanchton’s writings translated from the Latin into the Polish.
This article presents the results of research on selected correspondence of Philip Melanchthon to certain Polish men. Letters To the Polish Nobleman are an expression of concern about the fate of the Christian Europe threat-ened by Turks. Melanchthon is seen primarily as an educator who outlines the image of an ideal citizen and knight humanist. The article contains short biographical study of Eustathius von Knobelsdorf and two Melanchthon’s writings translated from the Latin into the Polish language.
Confession, understood as confession and forgiveness of sins, is one of the most interesting phenomena of the church. The article presents the results of research concerning the confession at the time of the Reformation, theology of the Lutheran symbolical books in particular. The dynamics of Luther’s and Melanchthon’s theological reflection on the role, form and the person of the administrator of confession was shown. Confession’s functions as a necessary condition for preparing the believers for participation in the Lord’s Supper and a significant factor in pastoral work were also brought into focus. The author reminds that the Reformation restored the rite of general confession to the church, without resigning from the individual confession, the course of which was reconstructed based on the “Small Catechism” and Lutheran iconography from the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.
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