. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . r the government of the faculty oftheology and the faculty of the liberal arts. Thelatter faculty is to have ten professors, who are tolecture on Latin, Greek, and Hebrew literature; onEthics, Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Dialec-tic, and Rhetoric. In the prominence given to these literary andphilosophical studies, we have an illustration ofMelanchthons fundamental principle, viz., that allthorough training in theology must rest on a philo-logical and philosophical foundation. He was ac-customed to say, Every good theol
. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 . r the government of the faculty oftheology and the faculty of the liberal arts. Thelatter faculty is to have ten professors, who are tolecture on Latin, Greek, and Hebrew literature; onEthics, Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Dialec-tic, and Rhetoric. In the prominence given to these literary andphilosophical studies, we have an illustration ofMelanchthons fundamental principle, viz., that allthorough training in theology must rest on a philo-logical and philosophical foundation. He was ac-customed to say, Every good theologian andfaithful interpreter of the heavenly doctrine, mustbe first a linguist, then a dialectician, and finally awitness. In a large sense the University of Wittenberg be-came the model for the other Protestant Order of Lectures in the Marburg statutesof 1529 is essentially the same as that of Wittenbergin 1536. There is no doubt, says Paulsen, thatit was composed under the direct or indirect influ- In Forstemanns Liber C. A\, 10: 1526] As Preceptor of Germany 139 ence of Melanchthon. Konigsberg was foundedin 1544 almost exclusively according to directionsgiven by Melanchthon, as was Jena in 1S48. Hiscounsel was sought and his plans were adopted inthe reorganisation of the universities of Tubingen,Leipzig, and Heidelberg, as will be seen and Rostock were reformedand reorganised mainly by Melanchthons , in 1545, took Wittenberg as its model,named Melanchthon our highly esteemed andvenerated teacher, and adopted his text-books asthe basis of the lectures/ The universities were all institutions of the State,and their professors were bound by the Confessionsof the Church. All the sciences, theology, philo-logy, law, and medicine were studied in these univer-sities according to the Melanchthonian method, withthe Melanchthonian thoroughness, and with theMelanchthonian view of honouring God and ofc
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