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Pium consensum tueri. Studien zum Begriff consensus im Werk von Erasmus von Rotterdam, Philipp Melanchthon und Johannes Calvin. By Michael Becht. (Reformations-geschichtliche Studien und Texte, 144.) Pp. xiv+590. Munster: Aschendorff, 2000. DM 142. 3 402 03808 0; 0171 3469 JEH (53) 2002; DOI: I0.1017/S0022046902624248
After a broadly conceived historical introduction to the concept of consensus, Becht focuses on the usage of three men who were pivotal to the Reformation debate in the sixteenth century: Erasmus, Melanchthon and Calvin. Erasmus was not a systematic theologian. Not surprisingly, therefore, Becht finds that his usage is vague and inconsistent. Consensus …