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By Matthew Fenn

I love Melanchthon. I named my third son Philip in his honor. His Loci Communes Theologici is my favorite theology text. I refer to it often. I teach from it often. I meditate on it often. This may sound strange to some Lutherans because many of the Reformation history books read in seminaries state that Melanchthon went off the rails after Luther's death. In the introduction to the second English edition of the 1559 Loci…

 
 
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