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Augsburg Confession Variata. 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.
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 was presented June 25, 1530, in German and Latin at the Diet of Augsburg to the emperor Charles V by seven Lutheran princes and two imperial free cities. The principal author was the reformer Philipp Melanchthon, who drew on earlier Lutheran statements of faith.
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.
A few articles of the Variata of 1540 / taken from Hall's "Harmony of Confessions" revised by H.E. Jacobs 54. The Confessio Saxonica, 1551 / translation in "An Harmony of Confessions," 1586 -- 55.
Augustana Variata‖ was used by Elector Frederick III of the Palatinate to justify the spiritualizing doctrine of the Lord‘s Supper that his theologians were propagating under Genevan influence.
The Augsburg Confession. Historical Introduction. Saturday, June 25, 1530, 3:00 p.m., must go down as a red-letter day and hour for every Lutheran. On that day the Lutheran Church as an identifiable unit in world history was born. More significantly, a group of theologians and laymen by the grace of God made a Biblically-based confession of ...