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==Significance==

==Significance==

Historians identify Melanchthon's historical significance in terms of the relation between humanism and the Reformation (that is, the Greco-Roman and biblical heritage in the history of the West). He identified the problem and his solution was incorporated into German thought and the organization of both the Lutheran church and the public school system in Germany. He avoided the risk that the Reformation would be sidetracked into an anti-intellectual spiritualism or, at the opposite extreme, philosophy would be imposed upon theology, knowledge upon faith, and reason upon revelation. Melanchthon balanced both poles. He was one of the first to achieve this balance, and his solution was ingeniously simple and enlightening, based as it was on the distinction between law and gospel. Together with Luther and several others, Melanchthon created a Christian and humanist educational system that was taken up and further developed by others, and it continued to be influential through the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century neohumanism into the twentieth century.

Historians identify Melanchthon's historical significance in terms of the relation between humanism and the Reformation (that is, the Greco-Roman and biblical heritage in the history of the West). He identified the problem and his solution was incorporated into German thought and the organization of both the Lutheran church and the public school system in Germany. He avoided the risk that the Reformation would be sidetracked into an anti-intellectual spiritualism or, at the opposite extreme, philosophy would be imposed upon theology, knowledge upon faith, and reason upon revelation. Melanchthon balanced both poles. He was one of the first to achieve this balance, and his solution was ingeniously simple and enlightening, based as it was on the distinction between law and gospel. Together with Luther and several others, Melanchthon created a Christian and humanist educational system that was taken up and further developed by others, and it continued to be influential through the Enlightenment and nineteenth century neohumanism into the twentieth century.

==See also==

==See also==