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Wolfgang Musculus
1497–1563
Wolfgang Musculus. Reformer at Augsburg and Bern. Broadly irenic figure who bridged Lutheran and Reformed camps. His Loci Communes was among the earliest comprehensive Reformed systematic theologies. Worked closely with Bullinger at Bern. An underappreciated foundation of the Reformed theological tradition.
From Common Places of Christian Religion
Preface of Wolfgang Musculus unto the Christian Reader, Years past (welbeloved in the Lord) since I first began without good deliberation let any thing escape me. And I do wish to God, that the slowness I used in the setting forth thereof may throughly help, that there be found nothing therein dissonant from the rule or purpose of the holy Scriptures. For I would not willingly in any thing that I write, be the Author or maintainer of any kind of error, though it were never so small. And the cause of my slow proceeding in this work, was, that by the order of our school I could not take in hand but one place in a week to expound to my hearers: but I perceive that there cometh no harm at all by the long tarrying in the setting forth hereof: for surely it shall seem soon enough done,…
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