The Protestant Reformation: Martin Bucer

This volume contains two highly important writings of the period of the Protestant Reformation.Philip Melanchthon's "Loci communes theologici","the first Protestant dogmatics,as it is sometimes called ,represents the work of a young man writing at the very beginning of the Luther Reformation".It sketches "a common outline of the topics that you can pursue in your study of Holy Scripture".It was Melanchthon's belief that "only a Scriptural theology was the true theology".-Jacket.

In this detailed study of Bucer's religious thought,Dr.Stephens has paid particular attention to the importance of the Holy Spirit in Bucer's theology.Through carefully selected quotations from his earliest writings in 1523 to his final ones in 1551,Bucer is allowed to speak for himself and emerges as a versatile thinker,deeply engaged in debating the great religious issues of his day.Subject to many influences,not least to humanism,Bucer was nevertheless essentially a reformer,for whom the Bible held a central and all-important place.-Jacket.