Lutheranism vs. Calvinism

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Two brilliant spokesmen. One passionate debate on the topics of the Lord's Supper the person of Christ Baptism and predestination. </em></p><p><br></p><p>The 1586 Colloquy of Montbéliard was a formal religious debate attended by clergy professors noblemen and chancellors alike. But this event that fostered both respectful discussion and heated argument really came down to a defense of beliefs between the leading Lutheran and Reformed churchmen of the day: the Lutheran Jakob Andreae an author of the Lutheran Formula of Concord and the Calvinist Theodore Beza John Calvin's successor in Geneva.</p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lutheranism vs. Calvinism: The Classic Debate at the Colloquy of</em> <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Montbéliard 1586 </em>is an invaluable tool not only for the study of the history of confessional Protestant theology but also for avoiding mischaracterizing confessional Lutheranism and Calvinism. In this first-ever English transcript of the debate the issues between classic Lutheranism and classic Calvinism are laid bare showing not only how the differences in these confessional positions were-and are-real and important but also how in some ways the two sides are in agreement.</p>