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Martin Bucer was a German Germany

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 Protestant reformer.

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Martin Bucer was a German Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country [i] in central Europe [i]. ... 

 Protestant reformer.

Biography

Bucer was born at Schlettstadt in Alsace Alsace

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 . In 1506 he entered the Dominican Dominican Order

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 order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with the works of Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus

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 and protestant Luther Martin Luther

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, and was present at a disputation of the latter with some of the Romanist doctors. He became a convert to the reformed Protestant Reformation

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 opinions, then abandoned his order, still by papal dispensation, in 1521, and soon afterwards married a former nun Nun

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, Elisabeth Silbereisen.

In 1522 he was pastor at Landstuhl in the Palatinate Palatinate

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, and travelled hither and thither propagating the reformed doctrine of Protestantism. After his excommunication in 1523 he made his headquarters at Strassburg Strasbourg

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, where he succeeded Matthew Zell. Henry VIII of England Henry VIII of England

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 asked his advice in connection with the divorce from his wife Catherine of Aragon Catherine of Aragon

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.

After the death of his first wife, in 1542 he married Wibrandis Rosenblatt the widow of the Reformers Johannes Oecolampadius Johannes Oecolampadius

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 and Wolfgang Fabricius Capito Wolfgang Fabricius Capito

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.

On the question of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Bucer's opinions were decidedly Zwingli Huldrych Zwingli

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an, being the author of the Tetrapolitan Confession, but he was anxious to maintain church unity with the Lutheran party and constantly endeavoured — especially after Zwingli's Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland [i], and founder of ... 

 death — to formulate a statement of belief that would unite Lutheran, south German and Swiss reformers; hence, the charge of ambiguity and obscurity which has been laid against him. After the failure of the Marburg Colloquy Marburg Colloquy

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 of October, 1529 to bring about such a union, Bucer himself persisted in seeking agreement with the Lutheran reformers. Such an agreement, the Wittenberg Concord, was concluded on May 29, 1536. The south German signatories were Bucer, Wolfgang Fabricius Capito Wolfgang Fabricius Capito

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, Matthäus Alber, Martin Frecht, Jakob Otter, and Wolfgang Musculus. The Lutheran signatories were Martin Luther Martin Luther

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, Philipp Melanchthon Philipp Melanchthon

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, Johannes Bugenhagen, Justus Jonas Justus Jonas

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... 

, Caspar Cruciger, Justus Menius, Friedrich Myconius, Urban Rhegius, George Spalatin. Later Bucer disavowed the agreement due to his differences with the Lutherans over the interpretation of manducatio indignorum . Bucer held that such "unworthy communicants" could only be Christians, though "unworthy" due to impenitence. The Lutherans held that "unworthy" communicants included unbelievers as well.

In 1548 he was sent for to Augsburg to sign the agreement, called the Interim, between the Catholics and Protestants. His stout opposition to this project exposed him to many difficulties, and he was glad to accept Cranmer Thomas Cranmer

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's invitation to make his home in England and assist with the Reformation Protestant Reformation

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 of the Church of England. On his arrival in 1549 he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University of Cambridge

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. Edward VI Edward VI of England

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 and the protector Somerset showed him much favour and he was consulted as to the revision of the Book of Common Prayer Book of Common Prayer

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. But on February 28, 1551 he died, and was buried in the university church, with great state.

In 1557 Catholic Queen Mary Mary I of England

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's commissioners exhumed and burnt his body and demolished his tomb; it was subsequently restored by order of Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth I of England

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. Bucer is said to have written ninety-six treatises, among them a translation and exposition of the Psalms and a work De regno Christi. His name is familiar in English literature from the use made of his doctrines by Milton John Milton

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 in his divorce treatises.

Bucer's collected writings are being published in three series: the Opera Latina edited by Francois Wendel et al , the Deutsche Schriften edited by Robert Stupperich et al , and the correspondence, edited by Jean Rott et all . Many of his biblical commentaries remain without a modern edition. A volume known as the Tomus Anglicanus contains his works written in England. The most recent biography is Martin Greschat, Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times, trans. Stephen Buckwalter . See also JW Baum, Capito and Butzer ; A Erichson, Martin Butzer ; and the articles in the Dict. Nat. Biog. , and in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopädie .

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      , by Luther Blissett.

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