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Leupold Scharnschlager

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Leupold Scharnschlager was an Anabaptist theologian and a writer, some of which are still extant. Leupold was a native of Hopfgarten.[1][2][3] Leupold Scharnschlager was a companion and a close associate of Pilgram Marpeck.[3]

Leopold saw the Old Covenant as a "shadow" pointing to the "promise" of the New Covenant, Leupold was a critic of Free Grace theology, defending the view that faith without works is not salvific.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Stayer, James M. (2002-08-08). Anabaptists and the Sword. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-7252-0181-1.
  2. ^ Stjerna, Kirsi I. (2022-10-04). Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts. Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-5064-6872-3.
  3. ^ a b Packull, Werner O. (1999-09-30). Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments During the Reformation. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6256-4.
  4. ^ Melloni, Alberto (2017-12-20). Martin Luther: A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517-2017). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-049902-5.
  5. ^ Wilkin, Bob. "The Reformation Had Lordship Salvation and Free Grace – Grace Evangelical Society". Retrieved 2022-11-09.