Philippists

As Philippists (also: Melanchthonianer, Adiaphoristen ) are a group of theologians who has emerged from internal Protestant doctrinal disputes. The name goes back to Philipp Melanchthon, the 1546 leadership role in Protestantism took over after the death of Martin Luther and their specific line.

1548 was concluded between the Emperor Charles V and the Protestant Estates the Augsburg Interim, or the Leipziger article. This sparked among the Protestant theologians from a disputation on six contentious issues. The Adiaphoristischen dispute, the dispute Majoristischen, the antinomian controversy, the Synergistic controversy, the Osiandrian dispute and a second Eucharistic controversy.

For the Philippists the focus was on the question of the manner in which the acts of worship should be practiced in the church. It was accepted by the Philippists that in Protestant worship certain liturgical peculiarities of the Catholic Church should be maintained. Strongest Disputationsgegner the Philippists were the Gnesio-Lutherans. The Philippists were counted with their displacement to the crypto- Calvinists.

Representatives of Philip Melanchthon slopes were next among others Georg Major, Andreas Osiander, Caspar Peucer, Caspar Cruciger the Younger and Alexander Alesius.