Balthasar Meisner

1587–1626 · Lutheran theologian, professor at Wittenberg

Balthasar Meisner was born in Dresden in 1587 and died in Wittenberg in 1626. He held the professorship of ethics there and later a chair in theology, and he was a leading voice of Lutheran orthodoxy. His disputations on human nature, the Anthropologia sacra, contain the earliest use researchers have reported of the exact Latin formula calling justification the article of the church’s standing and falling. He credited the saying to Luther.

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“Justification is the article by which the church stands and falls”

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