On 25 June 1580, the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, the Lutheran Book of Concord came off the presses in Dresden. The Book of Concord was a collection of those theological writings that represented the Lutheran Church’s unanimous confession. Today the pastors and people of the Lutheran Church still bind themselves to these confessional writings as a faithful exposition of Holy Scripture.
This module will examine two of the ten distinct documents contained in the Book of Concord, the Augsburg Confession of 1530 and Melanchthon’s Apology (Defence) of the Augsburg Confession (1531).