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published fromto, the monumental Loci Theologici of Johann Gerhard is now accessible in English, In these volumes, Gerhard addresses the doctrines of the Christian faith with skill and precision, This series offers contemporary church workers and researchers a wealth of material on the distinctive of Lutheran doctrine, Here Gerhard addresses the terminology and essence of the ministry, the call, ordination, and qualifications of ministers, Johann Gerhard was a Lutheran church leader and Scholastic theologian during the period of Orthodoxy,

At the age of fourteen, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church.
He entered the University of Wittenberg in, and studied philosophy and theology, A relative then persuaded him to change his subject, and he studied medicine for two years, In, he resumed his theological reading at Jena, and in the following year received a new impulse from J, W. Winckelmann and Balthasar Mentzer at Marburg, He graduated inand began to give lectures at Jena, then inhe accepted the invitation of John Casimir, Duke of Coburg, to th Johann Gerhard was a Lutheran church leader and Scholastic theologian during the period of Orthodoxy.
At the age of fourteen, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church.
He entered the University of Wittenberg in, and studied philosophy and theology, A relative then persuaded him to change his subject, and he studied medicine for two years, In, he resumed his theological reading at Jena, and in the following year received a new impulse from J, W. Winckelmann and Balthasar Mentzer at Marburg, He graduated inand began to give lectures at Jena, then inhe accepted the invitation of John Casimir, Duke of Coburg, to the superintendency of Heldburg, today Bad Colberg Heldburg, and mastership of the gymnasium soon afterwards he became general superintendent of the duchy, in which capacity he was engaged in the practical work of ecclesiastical organization until, when he became the senior theological professor at Jena, where the remainder of his life was spent.
Here, with Johann Major and Johann Himmel, he formed the "Trias Johannea, " Though still comparatively young, Gerhard was already regarded as the greatest living theologian of Protestant Germany in the "disputations" of the period he was always protagonist, and his advice was sought on all public and domestic questions touching on religion or morals.
During his lifetime he received repeated calls to almost every university in Germany e, g. Giessen, Altdorf, Helmstedt, Jena, Wittenberg, as well as to Uppsala in Sweden, He died in Jena. His writings are numerous, alike in exegetical, polemical, dogmatic and practical theology, To the first category belong the Commentarius in harmoniam historiae evangelicae de passione Christi, the Comment, super priorem D, Petri epistolam, and also his commentaries on Genesisand on Deuteronomy, Of a controversial character are the Confessio Catholica, an extensive work which seeks to prove the evangelical and catholic character of the doctrine of the Augsburg Confession from the writings of approved Roman Catholic authors and the Loci communes theologici, his principal contribution, in which Lutheranism is expounded "nervose, solide et copiose," in fact with a fulness of learning, a force of logic and a minuteness of detail that had never before been approached.
The Meditationes sacrae, a work expressly devoted to the uses of Christian edification, has been frequently reprinted in Latin and has been translated into most of the European languages, including Greek.
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