the commentary of dr zacharias ursinus on the heidelberg catechism

Second, his father's connections with the prominent families of Breslau allowed Ursinus to go to Wittenberg and study. This allowed for Ursinus the beginnings of his education. First, his father was a tutor and, thus, educated. The events of the early times of Ursinus' life would have a lasting effect on him and his theology. In 1554, Ursinus became very sick and had to go to the mountains for recuperation. Ursinus' grandmother, with whom he lived along with his sister and father, died in 1553 of another plague.

It is reported that Ursinus' mother died in 1542 when a plague struck Breslau and killed fifteen percent of the population. Elisabeth Church in Breslau and one of the city's reformers.

He was also an assistant to Ambrosius Moiban, minister of St. This helped him secure a position as head of care for the poor in Breslau. His father (Casper) was a tutor and, because of his work with their children, he came to know some of the prominent families of the city. They were lower middle class in terms of the economics for the family. The Ursinus family lived within modest means. When Ursinus was two years old, John Calvin would publish his first edition of The Institutes of the Christian Religion. The Augsburg Confession was already written (chiefly by one of his later instructors and friends, Philip Melanchthon), and King Henry VIII of England had declared his act of Supremacy which broke open the cracks between England, the Pope, and Roman Catholicism. Ursinus' birth followed the posting of the 95 theses by about seventeen years. When Ursinus was born, much had already happened in the Reformation of the church. Ursinus was born on July 18, 1534, in Breslau of Silesia, a town in a province of Austria. This is probably just the way he would have wanted it. He did not miss the beginning by much yet he is far enough removed that he is not given much consideration. Ursinus is down the ladder in time from the beginning of the Reformation. With the start of major movements in history, those who start the movement, or are at the beginning of the movement, are the most well-known. The other reason is that he is part of the second generation of the reformers. This is partly due to the fact that Ursinus would rather have been left alone as a teacher and study theology in some hidden corner of the world. Unfortunately, even some who read and hold to the Biblical truths taught in the Heidelberg Catechism do not know that he is one of its authors. Zacharias Ursinus is not one of the most well-known people of the Reformation.

The commentary of dr zacharias ursinus on the heidelberg catechism