Philipp Mecanchont joined the Wittenberg faculty right after Luther began to spread his ideas of humanism. Two years after Philipp Mecanchont joined, the Wittenberg curriculum was changed. Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and ethics were dropped and logic, rhetorics, and poetry stayed. Common Law was dropped but Civil Law was included. Three years after this, students had to be trained in the classics. Latin, Greek, and Hebrew were taught with great detail; theological training was only taught through the Bible. The ideas of Luther and what he preached influenced a change in curriculums at …show more content…
The true absolute contradiction is that Source D says the universities do not get enough credit for the reformation and Source B seems to credit the universities and their professors tremendously. Both sources would agree that the spread of the Protestant Reformation is due to students learning new ideas in universities and people traveling to hear lectures from Protestant Reformation leaders. Source B focuses more on who the professors were and on the influence of Luther and Philipp Mecanchont while Source D focuses on the change in curriculum due to the ideas preached by Luther and