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In the five hundred years since the publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, a rich set of traditions have grown up around that action and the subsequent events of the Reformation. This up-to-date dictionary by leading theologians and church historians covers Luther’s life and thought, key figures of his time, and the various traditions he continues to influence. Prominent scholars of...

education, marriage, and the relief of the poor. The Reformers were indebted to medieval and humanist legal teachings, but the Reformation “was not a revision or reversion of medieval legal thought but rather a skillful blend of Catholic and Evangelical, as well as canon and civil law doctrines and teachings” (Witte, Law and Protestantism, 184). The Reformation did not produce a uniform jurisprudence. The Reformers used and developed legal science from different perspectives. In general, natural
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