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The Book of Concord (1580) or Concordia (often referred to as the Lutheran Confessions) is the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, consisting of ten credal documents recognized as authoritative in Lutheranism since the 16th century. They are also known as the symbolical
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See moreThe Book of Concord was compiled by a group of theologians led by Jakob Andreae and Martin Chemnitz at the behest of their rulers, who desired an end to the religious controversies in their territories that arose among Lutherans after the
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See more• Preface (1579)
• The Three Ecumenical creeds.
• The Augsburg Confession of 1530
• The Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531)...
See moreEnglish translations of individual documents of The Book of Concord, notably The Augsburg Confession, were available since the 16th
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See more• Bente, Friedrich. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1921). New reprint edition. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995.
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See moreThe simple Latin title of the Book of Concord, Concordia, (Latin for "an agreeing together" ) is fitting for the character of its contents: Christian
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See moreTo this day the Book of Concord is doctrinally normative among traditional and conservative Lutheran churches, which require their pastors and other rostered church workers
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See more• Die Bekenntnisschriften der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche. Herausgegeben in Gedenkjahr der Augsburgischen Konfession 1930. 12th
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