Arand, Charles P. <br/><br/>
The Lutheran confessions :  history and theology of The book of Concord / 
Charles P. Arand, James A. Nestingen, and Robert Kolb. 
 - x, 341 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-332) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : The Book of Concord, a confessing of the faith -- Part I. The Ecumenical Creeds : -- 1. A history of the ancient creedal texts : apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian -- 2. the theological contributions of the ancient creeds -- Part II. The Wittenberg Confessions, Luther's and Melanchthon's Confessions of the Faith : -- 3. Luther's small and large catechisms -- 4. The Augsburg Confession -- 5. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession -- 6. The Smalcald Articles and the Treatise on the power and primacy of the Pope -- Part III. The Formula of Concord : -- 7. Theological tensions among Luther's followers before his death -- 8. The "culture of controversy" : the Smalcald war, the "interims," and the adiaphoristic controversy -- 9. The majoristic and "antinomian" controversies -- 10. The synergistic controversies, the controversy over original sin, and the doctrine of election in the late Reformation -- 11. The Osiandrian controversy over the righteousness that avails before God -- 12. The controversies over the Lord's Supper and Christology -- 13. Efforts at attaining concord, 1552-1569 -- 14. Jakob Andreae's drive for Lutheran unity and the composition of the Formula of Concord and the Book of Concord -- 15. Reactions to the Formula of Concord in the 1580s 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780800627416 (alk. paper) 0800627415 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011042067 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Book of concord.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Lutheran Church--Creeds--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX8068  / .A82 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>238/.41