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Lutheranism & the Classics The Age of the Reformation was also the Age of the
Renaissance, a period to which the birth of the modern
discipline of classics may be traced. The
classics provided a rich source for the thought, intellectual
undergirding, and polemic of the era. Classics thus became
part of the cultural DNA, as it were, of
the Reformation and post-Reformation Church in the West. Of
particular interest to this conference is the reception of
the classics in the Wittenberg (Lutheran)
Reformation. There, the darling of the Northern European
Renaissance, Philipp Melanchthon, appropriated the classics
in the service of the Gospel and drew them
to the fore as an integral part of the reformational
program in Saxony and much of Northern Europe. Papers at
“Lutheranism & the Classics” explore this
watershed period in the history of classics reception and
its ongoing impact on the Evangelical Lutheran Church. For
more information, visit www.ctsfw.edu/Classics.
Inquiries may be addressed to one of the three
organizers: John Nordling
(john.nordling@ctsfw.edu);
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