Philip Melanchthon's Commonplaces (Loci Communes) was first published in 1521 - relatively early in the Reformation. Commonplaces is something like a systematic theology in that it covers the basic teachings of the Christian faith as found in Scripture (e.g. God, Trinity, sin, law, gospel, faith, predestination, the sacraments, etc.). Martin Luther couldn't speak highly enough …
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