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Church history tells story of the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the people who have made up the church for 2,000 years. Frank A. James III and John D. Woodbridge’s Church History, vol. 2: From Pre-Reformation to the...

Philip of Hesse wanted to capitalize politically on the expansion of Protestantism to form a defensive alliance between the Lutherans and the Zwinglians. Philip understood that there could be no political alliance without theological agreement, so he proposed that Zwingli and Luther meet face-to-face at his castle in Marburg (October 1529) to resolve theological differences and thus establish the basis for a political alliance. Philipp Melanchthon, on the other hand, feared that a political alliance
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