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Joachim Westphal (of Hamburg) (born at
Hamburg 1510 or at the beginning of
1511; died there
January 16 1574) was a German
Gnesio-Lutheran theologian.
He was educated in the school of St. Nicolai in his native city, then in
Lüneburg, and entered the
University of Wittenberg, where he became the pupil of
Melanchthon and
Luther. In 1532, on the recommendation of Melanchthon, he was appointed teacher at the Johanneum in his native city. In 1534 he returned to the University of Wittenberg, and in the following year removed with the
university to Jena. After his return to Wittenberg in 1537 he lectured on philology. In 1541 he became preacher of the
church of St. Catharine in Hamburg; then acting superintendent in 1562, and was elected superintendent in 1571.
He is best known for his participation in the theological controversies of his time. He took part in that on the descent into hell, also in the discussion concerning the
Leipzig Interim and in that over the
Adiaphora. More important was that over the
Lord's Supper. In 1552 he published
Farrago confusanearum et inter se dissidentium opinionum de coena Domini, ex Sacramentariorum libris congesta, a warning against those who deny the
presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper. He points out to the adherents of Luther the alarming progress which the
sacramentarians had made and tries to prove the falsity of their doctrine by its diversity. In 1553 he issued
Recta fides de coena Domini, an exegetical discussion of
1 Cor. 11 and the
Words of Institution; in 1555
Collectanea sententiarum D. Aurelii Augustini de coena Domini and
Fides Cyrilli episcopi Alexandriae de praesentia corporis et sanguinis Christi.
Calvin answered in January 1555, with his
Defensio sanae et orthodoxae doctrinae de sacramentis. Thus there was opened a controversy which involved on the side of the
Reformed Lasco,
Bullinger,
Ochino,
Valerandus Polanus,
Beza, and
Bibliander; on the side of the Lutherans
Timann,
Paul von Eitzen,
Schnepff,
E. Alberus,
Gallus,
Flacius,
Judex,
Brenz, and
Andreä. Westphal replied to Calvin in
Adversus cuiusdam sacramentarii falsam criminationem iusta defensio, in qua et eucharistiae causa agitur (1555), to which Calvin answered in
Secunda defensio piae et orthodoxae de sacramentis fidei (1556), which was an attempt to draw to his side the
Philippists of Saxony and Lower Germany. Other works of Westphal occasioned by this controversy are:
Epistola Joachimi Westphali, qua breviter respondet ad convicia J. Calvini (1556);
Confessio fidei de eucharistiae sacramento, in qua ministri ecclesiarum Saxoniae...astruunt corporis et sanguinis D. n. J. Christi praesentiam in coena sancta, et de libro Calvini ipsis dedicato respondent (Magdeburg, 1557);
Justa defensio adversus insignia mendacia J. a Lasco, quae in epistola ad Poloniae regem contra Saxonicas ecclesias sparsit (1557);
Apologetica scripta Johannis Westphali, quibus et sanam doctrinam de eucharistia defendit et foedissimas calumnias sacramentariorum diluit (1558);
Confutatio aliquot enormium mendaciorum Johannis Calvini (1558);
Apologia confessionis de Coena Domini (1558). This book contains a chapter "De adoratione Christi in Eucharistia", where he defends
elevation and use of
bell during
consecration .
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