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A Book of Concord or Concordia occurs as compilation of the major theological documents of early Lutheranism. A book was foremost published in June 25, 1580, fifty years after a presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. A Book of Concord compiles a crucial Lutheran confessional documents, that is, documents that summarize & interpret a teachings of the Bible. It was meant to exist as the definitive Body of Doctrine (Corpus Doctrinae) for all Lutherans. Its editors, Jakob Andreä & Martin Chemnitz avoided a term sequentially to few feet away the Concordia from either earliest territorial Corpora Doctrinae. A number 1 documents in a book come the "Three Ecumenical Creeds," the Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed, all statements of Christian faith that got been nigh always accepted per established church since Byzantine times. A next collection of documents comes from either a earliest years of the Protestant Reformation. It is a confessions, articles, & treatises by Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, and more early Lutheran leaders in the period once it were foremost distinguishing themselves from either Roman Catholicism. A final documents, them sections of the Formula of Concord, were written shortly before a Book of Concord was published. Their intent wwhen a equivalent as that of a book itself: to unify the growing Lutheran movement.
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Book of Concord Online text of the Lutheran Confessions. Drop-down menu for Creeds, Augsburg Confession and Apology, Smalcald Articles, Treatise on the Primacy of the Pope, Catechisms, and Formula from Triglotta including the Triglot Concordia in PFD format. Includes Bente introduction and newer Small Catechism translations from LCMS and WELS. Catalogue of Testimonies Appendix to the Book of Concord written by Andreae and Chemnitz. The Book of Concord The Lutheran Confessions in individual sections and the complete Book of Concord in PFD format. |
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