John Bugenhagen Pomeranus

Author : Walter M. Ruccius
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330361337
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book John Bugenhagen Pomeranus written by Walter M. Ruccius and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John Bugenhagen Pomeranus: A Biographical Sketch In the history of the Reformation, there are a few names that overshadow all the rest. They are the names of the great leaders, the men who furnished the movement with its great ideas and reinterpreted Christianity to their generation and to the generations that have come after them. When we think of the Reformation, we think of Luther and Melanchthon, of Erasmus and Calvin and Zwingli. But beside these men there was a host of others who contributed their lives to the Reformation movement. Among them there were some who were also leaders of their fellows, though followers of the great Reformers. History has done scant justice to their memory. It has left them in relative obscurity, concealed within the shadows which their greater contemporaries have cast; and yet without them the Reformation would not have been. Among these Reformers of the second rank none did more to earn the gratitude of Protestants than John Bugenhagen. He was the typical servant with the two talents, of the Saviour's parable. An earnest, serious, uninspired and unoriginal personality, he yet possessed two gifts. One of them was the gift of loyalty to what he conceived to be the truth; the other was the gift of order. His loyalty was given wholeheartedly to the Reformation and to the author of it, whose friendship and confidence he enjoyed. His gift of order amounted to a genius for setting things to rights. It was his task to take the principles which Luther taught him and work them out in terms of organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.