Wittenberg and Byzantium: Lutheran Incentives to Correspond with the Patriarch of Constantinople (1573–1581).
Since the publications of Ernst Benz's Wittenberg und Byzanz (1971) and Dorothea Wendebourg's Reformation und Orthodoxie (1986), the late sixteenth‐century correspondence between the Greek Orthodox Church and Lutheran theologians from Tübingen has become more popular in historical and ecumenical sch...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious History Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 3 - 24 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2022
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