Wessel Gansfort
Author
1419 – 1489
Who was Wessel Gansfort?
Wessel Harmensz Gansfort was a theologian and early humanist of the northern Low Countries. Many variations of his last name are seen and he is sometimes incorrectly called Johan Wessel.
Gansfort has been called one of the reformers before the Reformation. He protested against a perceived paganizing of the papacy, superstitious and magical uses of the sacraments, the authority of ecclesiastical tradition, and the tendency in later scholastic theology to lay greater stress, in a doctrine of justification, upon the instrumentality of the human will than on the work of Christ for man's salvation.
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- Born
- 1419
Groningen - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Died
- Oct 4, 1489
Groningen
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on July 23, 2013
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