Georg Calixtus

Georg Calixtus

 

• Was a convinced that the Lutheran doctrine was the best interpretation of the Scripture

 

• Sought a rapprochement with believers of other confessions

 

• Distinguished between the essential and the secondary as like Melanchthon's

 

• Insisted the salvation is fundamental and absolutely necessary

 

• Called "the consensus of the first five centuries"

 

• Hoped to achieve better understanding and mutual appreciation among Christians of different confessions

 

• Called one of the for runners of the ecumenical movement

 

• Came to be known as "syncretism"