Melanchthon : Philipp (1497-1560), humanist, reformer, theologian & educator; author of the Confession of Augsburg of the Lutheran Church. Though he helped to lead the evangelical cause after Luther’s death (1546), his ironic actions were viewed by many as betrayals, & his reputation was tarnished by several controversies.
... margin of the manuscript page. Its place of insertion was not marked: One would sometimes almost think that this upheaval of thought anticipated at once Plato & Empedocles, Luther, Erasmus and Melanchthon, Kant, Hegel & Berkeley, Hume, Haeckel & Huxley—that we have at one fell blast Graeco-Roman philosophy, Protestant Reformation & modern rationalistic tendency anticipated by the single movement from ...
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