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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. It is distinguished from the unaltered or Editio princeps (original edition).
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.
As a result of the numerous and, in part, radical changes made by Melanchthon in the Augsburg Confession, the Reformed also, in the course of time more and more, laid claim to the Variata and appealed to it over against the loyal Lutherans.
1540 "Variata" aka The Altered Augsburg Confession. If you would like to see a side by side comparison of each article from the 1530 Unaltered Augsburg Confession next to the 1540 "Variata" edition, click here...
This version of the Augsburg Confession is the so-called Variata, in which Melanchthon made a number of changes in an attempt to compromise with the Calvinists. In Article 10 dealing with the Lord's Supper, the original text read: "Our churches teach that the body and blood of Christ are truly present and are distributed to those who eat in the ...
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.
