Gnesio-Lutherans - Controversies

Controversies

After the death of Luther, many theological controversies arose among the Lutherans, mostly due to teaching of Philip Melanchthon. Gnesio-Lutherans were profiled by defending Martin Luther's doctrine, in the beginning led by Matthias Flacius. The Gnesio-Lutherans exercised strict doctrinal discipline, but they also opposed with equal determination what they considered to be the errors of their fellow-combatants like von Amsdorf (Amsdorfians), Flacius (Flacians), Poach, and others. The centres of Gnesio-Lutherans were Magdeburg and the University of Jena.

Gnesio-Lutherans were involved in:

1. Adiaphoristic Controversy,
2. The Majoristic Controversy (Nicolaus von Amsdorf, Nicolaus Gallus),
3. The Second Antinomian Controversy, (Andreas Poach, Anton Otto)
4. The Synergistic Controversy (Matthias Flacius, Nicolaus Gallus)
5. The Osiandrian Controversy and
6. The Crypto-Calvinistic Controversy.

Other Gnesio-Luherans were Caspar Aquila, Joachim Westphal, Johann Wigand, Matthäus Judex, Joachim Mörlin, Tilemann Heshusius, Johann Timann, Simon Musaeus, Erasmus Sarcerius, and Aegidius Hunnius.