The Genus Maiestaticum in Non-Brenzian Christologies

Abstract

This chapter describes the views of three Lutheran theologians, writing in the late 1560s, who accept the genus maiestaticum without any of Brenz’s distinctive Christological metaphysics: namely, Jacob Schegk, Joachim Wigand, and Martin Chemnitz in the first edition of his De duabus naturis in Christo. The difference between these thinkers is described, as is the complex influence of Melanchthon, Brenz, and Andreae on their various Christological positions. The chapter shows how the theologians reacted to the divergence between Brenz and Andreae on the character of the human nature’s possession of divine attributes