EZRA INTRODUCTION Martin Luther you’ve heard of. Philipp Melanchthon, probably not. But Luther knew Melanchthon. And Luther was a better man as a result. Melanchthon was the intellectual of the Reformation. He authored the Augsburg Confession. He was the first to put into writing an evangelical theology. He was only eleven when his father died, only twelve when his grandfather presented him with a Bible and a Greek grammar. The next fifty years the three were inseparable. Melanchthon’s one great