Matthias Flacius Illyricus (Latin; Croatian: Matija Vlačić Ilirik, German: Matthias Flach) (3 March 1520 – 11 March 1575) was a Lutheran advocate from Istria, present day Croatia.
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Biography
Early activity and education
Flacius was built-in in Carpano, a allotment of Albona (today Labin) in Istria, son of Andrea Vlacich alias Francovich and Jacobea Luciani, babe of a affluent and able Albonian family. His mother's uncle was the Lutheran Baldo Lupetina who after was accursed to afterlife in Venice for his faith. He absent his ancestor during his aboriginal childhood.
At the age of sixteen Flacius went to abstraction in Venice area he was accomplished by the humanist Giambattista Cipelli (Baptista Aegnatius / Battista Egnazio). At the age of seventeen, he advised to accompany a apostolic order, with a appearance to angelic learning. His intention, however, was absent by his uncle, Baldo Lupetina, bigoted of the Franciscans and affectionate to the Reformation cause, who assertive him to alpha a university career.
Flacius connected his studies in Basel in 1539, afresh went to Tübingen and assuredly concluded up in Wittenberg area in (1541) he was accustomed by Melanchthon. There he came beneath the access of Martin Luther. In 1544, Flacius was appointed assistant of Hebrew at Wittenberg. He accomplished his master's amount on 24 February 1546, baronial aboriginal amid the graduates.
edit Career and teachings
Soon, Flacius was arresting in the apostolic discussions of the time, opposing agilely the Augsburg Interim, and the accommodation of Melanchthon accustomed as the Leipzig Interim. Melanchthon wrote of him with acidity as a apostate (aluimus in sinu serpentem, "we accept nourished a snake in our bosom"). Because Wittenberg became too stressful, Flacius confused to Magdeburg in 1549. On 7 May 1557 he was appointed assistant of New Testament canon at Jena but was anon complex in altercation with his aide Victorinus Strigel on the accessory catechism (relating to the action of the will in conversion).
Affirming the accustomed disability of man, he adopted a position on sin as not actuality an blow of animal nature, but complex in its substance, back The Fall of Man. Holding to a able appearance of what Calvinists after alleged absolute depravity, Flacius insisted that animal attributes was absolutely adapted by aboriginal sin, animal beings were adapted from advantage and about wholly besmirched with evil, authoritative them kin to the Devil in his view, so that aural them, after all-powerful assistance, there lies no ability alike to abet with the Gospel back they apprehend it preached. Animal acts of allegiance are valueless in themselves, and bodies are absolutely abased on the adroitness of God for salvation. Those that agreed with him on this point, for example, Cyriacus Spangenberg, were termed Flaccians. Resisting ecclesiastical censure, he larboard Jena (Feb. 1562) to begin an academy at Regensburg.
That appointment was not successful, so in October 1566 he accustomed a alarm from the Lutheran association at Antwerp. Thence he was apprenticed (Feb. 1567) by the exigencies of war, and went to Frankfurt, area the authorities stood adjoin him. He proceeded to Strasbourg area he was able-bodied accustomed by the administrator Johannes Marbach, and he hoped he had begin an asylum. Here again, his religious angle were different and controversial. The authorities ordered him to leave the burghal by May Day 1573. The prioress Catharina von Meerfeld of the Convent of White Ladies secretly harboured him and his ancestors in Frankfurt area he fell ill and died on 11 March 1575.
Flacius was built-in in Carpano, a allotment of Albona (today Labin) in Istria, son of Andrea Vlacich alias Francovich and Jacobea Luciani, babe of a affluent and able Albonian family. His mother's uncle was the Lutheran Baldo Lupetina who after was accursed to afterlife in Venice for his faith. He absent his ancestor during his aboriginal childhood.
At the age of sixteen Flacius went to abstraction in Venice area he was accomplished by the humanist Giambattista Cipelli (Baptista Aegnatius / Battista Egnazio). At the age of seventeen, he advised to accompany a apostolic order, with a appearance to angelic learning. His intention, however, was absent by his uncle, Baldo Lupetina, bigoted of the Franciscans and affectionate to the Reformation cause, who assertive him to alpha a university career.
Flacius connected his studies in Basel in 1539, afresh went to Tübingen and assuredly concluded up in Wittenberg area in (1541) he was accustomed by Melanchthon. There he came beneath the access of Martin Luther. In 1544, Flacius was appointed assistant of Hebrew at Wittenberg. He accomplished his master's amount on 24 February 1546, baronial aboriginal amid the graduates.
edit Career and teachings
Soon, Flacius was arresting in the apostolic discussions of the time, opposing agilely the Augsburg Interim, and the accommodation of Melanchthon accustomed as the Leipzig Interim. Melanchthon wrote of him with acidity as a apostate (aluimus in sinu serpentem, "we accept nourished a snake in our bosom"). Because Wittenberg became too stressful, Flacius confused to Magdeburg in 1549. On 7 May 1557 he was appointed assistant of New Testament canon at Jena but was anon complex in altercation with his aide Victorinus Strigel on the accessory catechism (relating to the action of the will in conversion).
Affirming the accustomed disability of man, he adopted a position on sin as not actuality an blow of animal nature, but complex in its substance, back The Fall of Man. Holding to a able appearance of what Calvinists after alleged absolute depravity, Flacius insisted that animal attributes was absolutely adapted by aboriginal sin, animal beings were adapted from advantage and about wholly besmirched with evil, authoritative them kin to the Devil in his view, so that aural them, after all-powerful assistance, there lies no ability alike to abet with the Gospel back they apprehend it preached. Animal acts of allegiance are valueless in themselves, and bodies are absolutely abased on the adroitness of God for salvation. Those that agreed with him on this point, for example, Cyriacus Spangenberg, were termed Flaccians. Resisting ecclesiastical censure, he larboard Jena (Feb. 1562) to begin an academy at Regensburg.
That appointment was not successful, so in October 1566 he accustomed a alarm from the Lutheran association at Antwerp. Thence he was apprenticed (Feb. 1567) by the exigencies of war, and went to Frankfurt, area the authorities stood adjoin him. He proceeded to Strasbourg area he was able-bodied accustomed by the administrator Johannes Marbach, and he hoped he had begin an asylum. Here again, his religious angle were different and controversial. The authorities ordered him to leave the burghal by May Day 1573. The prioress Catharina von Meerfeld of the Convent of White Ladies secretly harboured him and his ancestors in Frankfurt area he fell ill and died on 11 March 1575.
Impact
Flaccius' activity was absolutely remarkable. His argumentation accept usually been anesthetized over as abominable by abbey historians; about he stands at the alpha of the accurate abstraction of abbey history, and — if we except, a abundant exception, the assignment of Laurentius Valla — of hermeneutics also. No agnosticism his alive motive was to prove Roman Catholicism to be congenital on bad history and bad exegesis. Regardless of Flacius's argumentation intent, the alteration of bad history and bad comment has been admired to bodies of abounding acceptance and non-faith traditions. Hence the continuing amount of the attempt embodied in Flacius' Catalogus testium veritatis (1556; revised copy by J. C. Dietericus, 1672) and his Clavis scripturae sacrae (1567), followed by his Glossa compendiaria in N. Testamentum (1570). His appropriate formula, historia est fundamentum doctrinae, is added good accepted now than in his own day.
edit Family life
In 1545, while at Wittenberg, Flaccius affiliated a pastor's daughter. He had twelve accouchement with his aboriginal wife afore she anesthetized away, in 1564. He remarried the aforementioned year and had six (?) added accouchement with his additional wife. His son Matthias was assistant of aesthetics and anesthetic at Rostock.
edit Family life
In 1545, while at Wittenberg, Flaccius affiliated a pastor's daughter. He had twelve accouchement with his aboriginal wife afore she anesthetized away, in 1564. He remarried the aforementioned year and had six (?) added accouchement with his additional wife. His son Matthias was assistant of aesthetics and anesthetic at Rostock.
Works
De vocabulo fidei (1549)
De voce et re fidei (1555)
Catalogus testium veritatis, qui ante nostram aetatem reclamarunt Papae (1556)
Confessio Waldensium (1558)
Konfutationsbuch (1559)
Ecclesiastica historia, integram Ecclesiae Christi ideam ... secundum singulas Centurias, perspicuo ordine complectens ... ex vetustissimis historicis ...congesta: Per aliquot studiosos et pios viros in urbe Magdeburgica (1559–1574)
Clavis Scripturae Sacrae seu de Sermone Sacrarum literarum (1567)
Glossa compendiaria in Novum Testamentum (1570)
De voce et re fidei (1555)
Catalogus testium veritatis, qui ante nostram aetatem reclamarunt Papae (1556)
Confessio Waldensium (1558)
Konfutationsbuch (1559)
Ecclesiastica historia, integram Ecclesiae Christi ideam ... secundum singulas Centurias, perspicuo ordine complectens ... ex vetustissimis historicis ...congesta: Per aliquot studiosos et pios viros in urbe Magdeburgica (1559–1574)
Clavis Scripturae Sacrae seu de Sermone Sacrarum literarum (1567)
Glossa compendiaria in Novum Testamentum (1570)
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