"THE GREAT NUREMBERG NOTE" - THE ORIGIN OF ANDREAS OSIANDER’S THEOLOGY
The article deals with the doctrinal document - «The Great Nuremberg Note» (1524) - an important monument of the early Reformation period. One of the authors of the note is Andreas Osiander, an original Protestant theologian who belongs to the first generation of reformers. The document consists of three parts. The first and second parts deal with doctrinal issues, the third is devoted to church practice and discipline. In the «Great Nuremberg Note» Osiander for the first time expressed a number of provisions that became the subject of internal Protestant disputes, and drew attention to the personality of the author of such major church thinkers as Philip Melanchthon and John Calvin. The so called «Osiandrian Controversy» is a reference point for understanding the genesis of Protestant theology in the middle of the 16th century, however, in the Russian-speaking church-historical and theological science, the fate and literary heritage of Andreas Osiander remain practically unexplored.