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The Altered Augsburg Confession (Lat. Confessio Augustana Variata) is a later version of the Lutheran Augsburg Confession that includes notable differences with regard to holy communion and the presence of Christ in bread and wine.
First Part: Historical introduction -- 1. The origin of the confessions -- 2. The defense of the confession -- 3.
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
On Melanchthon’s alterations of the Augsburg Confession the Romanists, as the Preface to the Book of Concord explains, based the reproach and slander that the Lutherans themselves did not know “which is the true and genuine Augsburg Confession.” (15.)
The Augsburg Confession, 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 important documents of the Protestant Reformation.
The Augsburg Confession breathes throughout an earnest and devout evangelical Christian spirit, and is expressed in clear, mild, dignified language. It professes to be both Scriptural and churchly, and in harmony even with the Roman Church as known from the genuine tradition of antiquity.
1 Confession in the churches is not abolished among us; for it is not usual to give the body of the Lord, except to them that have been previously examined and absolved. And 2 the people are most carefully taught concerning faith in the absolution, about which formerly there 3 was profound silence.
