Andreas Volanus

Andreas Volanus (Lithuanian: Andrius Volanas, Polish: Andrzej Wolan, 1530 in Poznań – 1610 in Vilnius) was a secretary to the Grand Duke of Lithuania and an eminent Calvinist theologian.^[1]^[2] Volanus was involved with controversy about both Jesuits and the Ecclesia Minor or Polish Brethren.^[3] Fausto Sozzini's De Jesu Christi natura (1584) is a reply to Volanus.

Works

Caecitas et poena ecclesiae, libellus lectu dignissimus 1608
Francisci Turriani ... Contra Andream Volanum ... de sanctissima eucharistia ...1577
Paraenesis Andreae Volani ad omnes in regno Poloniae, Magnoque Ducatu Lituaniæ. 1582
Andreæ Volani Ad beatissimum patrem, D. Hippolytum Aldebrandinum ... Oratio 1593
De dignitate ordinis ecclesiastici regni Poloniæ 1582
De libertate politica 1572

References

↑ Kestutis Daugirdas Andreas Volanus und die Reformation im Großfürstentum Litauen
↑ Marcelinas Ročka, Ingė Lukšaitė Rinktiniai raštai Andreas Volanus 1996 - 446 pages
↑ The Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 423

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