Wessel Gansfort
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Wessel Harmensz Gansfort (1419 – 4 October 1489) was a theologian and early humanist of the northern Low Countries. Many variations of his last name are seen and he is sometimes incorrectly called Johan Wessel.
Wessel Harmensz Gansfort | |
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Born | 1419 |
Died | 4 October 1489(1489-10-04) (aged 69–70) Groningen, Habsburg Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire |
Nationality | Dutch |
Other names | Johan Wessel |
Occupation(s) | Theologian Humanist |
Known for | Grace oriented salvation, Criticism of Indulgences[1] |
Gansfort has been called one of the reformers before the Reformation. He protested against a perceived paganizing of the papacy, superstitious and magical uses of the sacraments, the authority of ecclesiastical tradition, and the tendency in later scholastic theology to lay greater stress, in a doctrine of justification, upon the instrumentality of the human will than on the work of Christ for man's salvation.[2] Some of John of Wessel's teachings foreshadowed the Protestant reformation.[3]