Flacian

As to the Flacian quarrels, however, concerning which you are now treating with me so eagerly, and into which

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The Flacian Controversy sprang from, and must be regarded as an episode of, the Synergistic Controversy, in which also some champions of

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Concord_ points out the offensiveness of the Flacian phraseology.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

Flacius and Gallus as having slandered him, and declined to treat with the Lower Saxons on the basis of the "Flacian theses."

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Flacianists might get control of the prospective general council, he, in advance, denounced and branded it as a "Robber Synod (_Raeubersynode_), advocated by the ignorant Flacian rabble."

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And before long Wigand began to denounce publicly the Flacian doctrine as "new and prolific monsters, _monstra nova et fecunda. _"

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The Philippists of Leipzig and Wittenberg in turn, denounced the Jena theologians as Flacian fighting cocks (_Flacianische Haderkatzen_).

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In four articles the controverted questions concerning justification, good works, the Lord's Supper, and the adiaphora were dealt with, but in vague and ambiguous terms, the articles being based on Melanchthon's anti-Flacian opinion of March 4, 1558. (499ff.; 462ff.)

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However, it does not appear that after the disputation his friends pressed the matter any further, or that they made any efforts publicly to disavow the Flacian proposition.

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Accordingly, in a series of arguments, the Flacian error is thoroughly refuted and decidedly rejected.

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