Sources and Contexts of the Book of Concord

by Kolb, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780800632908
• ISBN10: 0800632907
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Born in controversy and raised in university settings, the Lutheran reform movement was embroiled immediately, publicly, and perennially in theological disputes and political battles. While controversies during Martin Luther's lifetime centered on disagreements with Rome and Geneva, present and later differences emerged over interpreting Luther's and Melanchthon's theologies on such issues as governmental interference, liturgical practices, justification's implications for good works and sin, the Lord's supper, and election. It is this defining dis-concord, alternating with attempts at concord and conciliation, that is reflected in the documents newly translated in this indispensable documentary companion to The Book of Concord, which includes the works of Agricola, Eck, Chemnitz, Melanchthon, and Luther.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	xiii
Contributors	xv
A Booklet for Laity and Children	1	(12)
Timothy J. Wengert
One Hundred Thirty Common Questions	13	(18)
Johann Agricola
Timothy J. Wengert
John Eck's Four Hundred Four Articles for the Imperial Diet at Augsburg	31	(52)
Robert Rosin
The Schwabach Articles	83	(5)
William R. Russell
The Marburg Articles	88	(5)
William R. Russell
The Torgau Articles	93	(12)
William R. Russell
The Confutation of the Augsburg Confession	105	(35)
Mark D. Tranvik
Philip Melanchthon's Disputation: We Are Justified by Faith and Not by Love	140	(4)
Charles P. Arand
The Augsburg Interim	144	(39)
Oliver K. Olson
The Leipzig Interim	183	(14)
Robert Kolb
Judgment on Certain Controversies concerning Certain Articles of the Augsburg Confession	197	(23)
Martin Chemnitz
J.A.O. Preus
Robert Kolb
Catalog of Testimonies	220	(25)
Thomas Manteufel
Martin Luther's Torgau Sermon on Christ's Descent into Hell and the Resurrection	245	(11)
Robert Kolb
The Saxon Visitation Articles of 1592	256	(5)
Charles P. Arand
Index of Biblical Passages	261	(5)
Biographical Index	266	(7)
Subject Index	273