Johann Stössel (1524-1576) German theologian. "After taking his degree at Wittenberg in 1549, he was called, as an anti-Philippist, to Weimar by Duke Joh. Frederick as Chaplain and in this capacity he took part with Maximilian Mörlin, court chaplain at Coburg, in introducing the Reformation in the margravate of Baden-Durlach in 1556, vigorously opposing everything divergent from strict Lutheranism. In the same spirit he opposed Melanchthon at the colloquy of Worms in the following year... in 1558 [he] took part, with Mörlin and Simon Musaeus, in the preparation of the Wei...
View More...![Image for <em>Apologia D. Ioannis Stosselii, Opposita Sophisticis et Friuolis cauillationibus quorundam censorum,</em> <em>in Comitatu Mansfeldensi, qui ambitione & odio accensi, potentiam & authoritatem reformandi alienas Ecclesias arroganter sibi sumunt, & prætextu puritatis doctrinæ, & gloriæ Dei, adnouas seditiones, aut distractiones sæuiores in Ecclesia Christi classicum canunt.</em> [small simple woodcut] I. Corinth. 4. Ego verò nihil facio à vobis indicari, vel ab humano die, Dominus est, qui verè & iustè de me sententiam laturus est. Esaiæ 9. Vnusquisq deuorat carnem brachii sui, Manasse Ephrim, & Ephraim Manassen. Galat. 5. Qui conturbat vos, iudicium portabit, quisquis est. Prouerb. 18. Iustus in principio accusator est sui postea inquirit in alios.](/assets/images/product/16169_a6c1ac7fcf886571548805a5ae216dc0.jpg)
