1 Most Invincible Emperor, Caesar Augustus, Most Clement Lord: Inasmuch as Your Imperial Majesty has summoned a Diet of the Empire here at Augsburg to deliberate concerning measures against the Turk, that most atrocious, hereditary, and ancient enemy of the Christian name and religion, in what way, namely, effectually to withstand his furor and ...

The Augsburg Confession (German: Augsburger Bekenntnis), also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most …

The Augsburg Confession is the first of the great Protestant Confessions. All orthodox Lutheran church bodies base their teachings upon this treatise because they believe that it is a faithful to Word of God.

The Augsburg Confession was written in both German and Latin (our translation follows the Latin more closely than the German). The German copy was read to the council at Augsburg on June 25, 1530. The Catholics condemned the confession, and they wrote a long response to it. Melanchthon then

Augsburg Confession, the 28 articles that constitute the basic confession of the Lutheran churches, presented June 25, 1530, in German and Latin at the Diet of Augsburg to the emperor Charles V. The principal author was the reformer Philipp Melanchthon.

The occasion was a public reading before Emperor Charles V of a series of paragraphs on doctrinal points which have come to be known in history as the Augsburg Confession (or the Augustana, its Latin term derived from the Latin name for Augsburg).

In Augsburg, Zwingli himself sent his own Ratio fidei (Ground of Faith) to the emperor, and four cities, Strasbourg, Memmingen, Lindau, and Constance, under the leadership of Martin Bucer, presented the Confessio Tetrapolitana.

Jan 26, 2022 · The Augsburg Confession is the affirmation of faith of the Lutheran Church written by Philip Melanchthon (l. 1497-1560) and presented at the Diet of Augsburg in June 1530.

The Augsburg Confession of 1530 includes the Introduction; Preface to the Emperor Charles V; Article I - Article XXVIII; Abuses Corrected and the Conclusion

Article 11: Confession; Article 12: Repentance; Article 13: The Use of the Sacraments; Article 14: Order in the Church; Article 15: Church Usages; Article 16: Civil Government; Article 17: The Return of Christ to Judgment; Article 18: Free Will; Article 19: The Cause of Sin; Article 20: Faith and Good Works; Article 21: Of the Worship of the Saints