TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arand,Charles P.
AU  - Nestingen,James Arne
AU  - Kolb,Robert
TI  - The Lutheran confessions: history and theology of The book of Concord 
SN  - 9780800627416 (alk. paper)
AV  - BX8068 .A82 2012
U1  - 238/.41 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Book of concord
KW  - Lutheran Church
KW  - Creeds
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-332) and indexes; 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
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