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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 revised form of the Confession, June 15, 1530 -- 39. The final form of the Confession, June 25, 1530 -- 40. The German version of the Editio Princeps -- 41. The representations of Campagius, end of June, 1530 / translated by B.J. Kidd -- 42. Four letters from Augsburg to Luther, June 25-26 / translated by John C. Mattes and J. Bodensieck -- 43.
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.
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.
The Augsburg Confession had been translated into Greek by Paul Dolscius in 1558, and Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) had sent this translation to the Patriarch Joseph in Constantinople. Lutherans at this time hoped to establish a relationship to the Orthodox Churches.
Augsburg Confession, the 28 articles that constitute the basic confession of the Lutheran churches. 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.
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.)
