Philippists

As Philippists : (also Melanchthonianer, Adiaphoristen refers to a group of) theologians , which emerged from internal Protestant teaching disputes the 16th century. The name goes back to Philipp Melanchthon , who after the death of Martin Luther in 1546 took over the leading role in Protestantism and determined its line.

In 1548 the Augsburg Interim and the Leipzig Articles were concluded between Emperor Charles V and the Protestant estates . This triggered disputations among the Protestant theologians on six points of contention: the Adiaphoristic dispute , the Majorist dispute , the Antinomistic dispute , the Synergistic dispute , the Osiandrian dispute and a second sacrament dispute .

For the Philippists, the focus was on the question of how cultic acts should be practiced during worship. The Philippists accepted that certain liturgical peculiarities of the Catholic Church should be retained in Protestant worship. The sharpest opponents of the Philippists' disputation were the Gnesiolutherans . With their suppression, the Philippists were counted among the cryptocalvinists .

In addition to Melanchthon, representatives of the Philippists included Georg Major , Andreas Osiander , Caspar Peucer , Caspar Cruciger the Younger and Alexander Alesius .

literature

• Jürgen Diestelmann : Usus and Actio. Holy Communion with Luther and Melanchthon . Pro Business, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86805-032-5 .
• Wolfgang Klose: The Wittenberg Scholars' Studbook: the studbook of Abraham Ulrich (1549–1577) and David Ulrich (1580–1623). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3 .