Melanchthon never became free of, even after being influenced by Luther for years, finally asserted itself; and we have the full-blown result of this in his synergism expressed in his later writings.13 Aristotelianism is not the reason for his synergism; rather synergism and humanism are possibly the reason he does not abandon much of his Aristotelian anthropology. THE CONTRIBUTION OF ANDREW HYPERIUS After Melanchthon the most important contribution to the advancement of Lutheran dogmatics and prolegomena