HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 78: Wolfgang Capito, Free Imperial City, Philip Melanchthon
7 Apr 2020
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The gospel shines the light of faith on us. If we seek to understand on the basis of that belief, then that means we are simply looking at specific objects. They are lit up by the divine light source of the gospel: commentator"s lanterns. By commenting upon scripture, we are only ever holding up our own lanterns. Our own miniscule light sources to the objects of our understanding. Trying to understand the core of faith at the heart of the gospel is like trying to use a lantern to get a better look at the sun: faber in 1525. The meaux circle began to disband due to pressure placed by king francis i upon potential evangelizers. As a free imperial city, it harboured greater hopes for religious and inellectual liberty: faber in strasbourg. He explained to him the intricacies of luther"s new theology. Capito like melanchthon gave himself a classical nickname. He compared this to the latin: capito"s background.
