Renascentes Musae: Philipp Melanchthon, Confessor

16 February, 2010

Philipp Melanchthon, Confessor

Today, 16 February, the birthday in 1497 of Philipp Schwarzerd, is also observed in the Lutheran Church as the Commemoration of Philipp Melanchthon, Confessor. We at renascentes Musae are quick to add that his epithets include the following: humanist, educational reformer, Graecist extraordinaire, and praeceptor Germaniae. Read the devotion for the Commemoration of Melanchthon from Memorial Moments.

5 comments:

Rev. Joshua Hayes said...: Quoniam hic est dies commemorationis eius, quin tu, pie lector, ea quae de vita Melanchthonis carminibus elegiacis scripta sunt ex hoc libro legis?; Tuesday, 16 February, 2010
Amberg said...: What a wonderful devotion. Clear light into a cloudy mind. Thanks for linking it.; Tuesday, 16 February, 2010
Amberg said...: Nonnullos versos modo laetius sic recitabam
Tam pauci ut fuerint mi satis versiculi.

Oro me illam diem visurum ubi nostri discipuli tam pia carmina componere possint. Ceterum primus pentameter "doctrinae fontes quos habuere suae" mihi non placet. Est enim una doctrinae fons, quae est Sacra Scriptura. Dulcis tamen fuit eius intentio.

Vale!; Tuesday, 16 February, 2010
Rev. Joshua Hayes said...: Salue Amberg:

Ego quoque uolo illum diem spectem gloriosum.

Equidem censeo uersum secundum accipiendum esse; nam multa sunt genera doctrinae, ergo multi sunt fontes. fons uero Christinae doctrinae est scriptura sola, sed Melanchthon docuit et alias res, (e.g. Latinitatem, rhetoricen, etc.) quae disci possunt multis ex fontibus.

Cura ut ualeas!; Thursday, 18 February, 2010
Amberg said...: Enim, illa contradictio valet. I should have read the rest of the poem. It makes it very clear.; Thursday, 18 February, 2010

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Renascentes Musae (reh-nah-SKEN-tays MOO-sigh). That's right. Reh-nah-SKEN-tays MOO-sigh. "The rebirth of the Muses," or, literally, "the Muses in the process of being re-born." That was Reformation-Era code for the kind of university reform that accompanied the Reformation, a revitalization of higher education that eschewed the scholasticism of the Late Medieval world for a bracing encounter with the classics, the literae humaniores, of both the pagan and Christian world, along with the intellectual tools needed for such study: the ancient languages (classical Greek, classical Latin, and Hebrew), rhetoric & dialectic. This blog is devoted to searching for and articulating a theologically faithful and intellectually responsible rationale for Lutheran higher education on the basis of Wittenberg Christian Humanism and to imagining what renascentes Musae might look like in 21st-century North American confessional Lutheranism. Need we mention it? Opinions expressed by an individual author are not necessarily those of all authors. Not only that--if we can't vouch for one another's opinion--it goes without saying that authors also speak on their own behalf and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institutions that employ them.