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Leighton Library has 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae by Philipp Melanchthon

Added at 13:41 on 16 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes) by German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon who was born #OnThisDay 1497. Martin Luther said of this book "Next to Holy Scripture, there is no better book." Melanchthon was a collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, and intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation

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