Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb and I'm joined by Dr. Rod Rosemont, Scott Keith and

Adam Francisco. We are in the middle of a series on the great thinkers of the Christian faith. And we

ended the last episode talking about Philip Melanchthon. He's a big figure in the German Reformation.

And he's important to Lutheranism for just a ton of reasons. And last

episode, we covered his sort of early background, his education, and the early time he spent

at Wittenberg teaching and his relationship with Martin Luther. And today, I thought we would

finish Melancton, we would, or at least get to some of his major works.

We talked about it a little bit before.

In the last episode, we kind of hinted at some of the things he's written,

major contributions to Lutheranism and kind of the thought that follows him.

Sure, yeah.

So we ended off last time right around 1530. I mean, we

will go back a little bit to 15, 18, 15, 19 in a minute, but we ended around 1530 because that's

the writing of the Augsburg Confession. I would think if our listeners want to get us a flavor of

Melanchthon, I'd say probably start with the Augsburg Confession. It's 28 articles, mostly, you know, paragraph 2, 3, 4.

Yeah, most of them are pretty short, and then there's a couple big ones.

Yeah, it's a couple big ones.

But on the whole, you're talking about 28, probably, you know, 36, 37, 38 paragraphs in total.

That you're writing, you could easily read it in the half an hour, I would guess. I love contrasting it against the apology, too, and like how simple they thought it would be

presenting it and the reality. Really naive again. They just thought if they wrote it in an

ironic way, not polemical, a friendly way, but they knew the content, that Rome would say, oh, we've really screwed up.

Yeah, so the historical background here, correct me at any point here, historical background here

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