Wessel Gansfort - Works

Works

Gansfort's major works are:

  • De oratione et modo orandi
  • Scala meditationis
  • De causis incarnationis
  • De dignitate et potestate ecclesiastica

There are also:

  • De providentia
  • De causis et effectibus incarnationis et passionis
  • De sacramente, poenitentiae
  • Quae sit vera communio sanctorum
  • De purgatorio
  • De sacramento Eucharistiæ et audienda missa

Several of his letters survive. Some his works are said to have been burned by his friends shortly after his death for fear of ecclesiastical inquisition.

  • Farrago rerum theologicarum is the title of a collection of his writings published at Zwolle, probably in 1521 (reprinted at Wittenberg, 1522, and Basel, 1522, which last contains a preface by Luther). Martin Luther in 1521 published a collection of Wessel's writings which had been preserved as relics by his friends, and said that if he (Luther) had written nothing before he read them, people might well have thought that he had stolen all his ideas from them. McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia describes Gansfort as "the most important among men of German extraction who helped prepare the way for the Reformation."

A complete edition of his works appeared at Groningen in 1614, including a biography by the Protestant preacher Albert Hardenberg.

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