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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASSANDER (or CASSANT), See also:GEORGE (1513-1566)  , Flemish theologian, See also:born at Pitthem near See also:Bruges, went at an See also:early See also:age to See also:Louvain and was teaching See also:theology and literature in 1541 at Bruges and shortly afterwards at See also:Ghent . About 1549 he removed to See also:Cologne, where, after a profound study of the points of difference between the See also:Catholic and reformed churches, he devoted himself to the project of See also:reunion, thus anticipating the efforts of See also:Leibnitz . In 1561 he published anonymously De Officiis pii ac publicae tranquillitatis See also:vere amantis viri in hoc dissidio religions (See also:Basel), in which, while holding that no one, on See also:account of abuses, has a right utterly to subvert the See also:Church, he does not disguise his dislike of those who exaggerated the papal claims . He takes his standpoint on Scripture explained by tradition and the fathers of the first six centuries . At a See also:time when controversy drowned the See also:voice of See also:reason, such a See also:book pleased neither party; but as some of the See also:German princes thought that he could heal the See also:breach, the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand asked him to publish his Consultatio de Articulis Fidei inter Catholicos et Protestantes Controversis (1565), in which, like See also:Newman at a later date, he tried to put a Catholic See also:interpretation upon See also:Protestant formularies . While never attacking See also:dogma, and even favouring the See also:Roman church on the ground of authority, he criticizes the papal See also:power and makes reflections on practices . The See also:work, attacked violently by the Louvain theologians on one See also:side, and by See also:Calvin and See also:Beza on the other, was put on the Roman See also:Index in 1617 . He died at Cologne on the 3rd of See also:February 1566 . The collected edition of his See also:works was published in 1616 at See also:Paris . (E .

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