The Book of Concord (New Translation): The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Fortress Press, 2000 M08 4 - 792 pages
A new translation with expanded introductions and annotations.
 

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Contents

The Three Ecumenical Creeds
19
The Augsburg Confession
27
Apology of the Augsburg Confession
107
The Smalcald Articles
295
Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope
329
The Small Catechism
345
The Large Catechism
377
Formula of Concord
481
Index of Biblical References
661
Biographical Index
677
Subject Index
695
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About the author (2000)

Robert Kolb, professor of systematic theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri, has taught on five continents and written or edited some thirty books, including The Book of Concord, coedited with Timothy J. Wengert (Fortress Press, 2000), and The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, coedited with Irene Dingel and Lubomir Batka (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Timothy J. Wengert is emeritus professor of church history at the United Lutheran Seminary. He has written extensively on Luther, Melanchthon, and the Reformation, including The Augsburg Confession: Renewing Lutheran Faith and Practice (Fortress, 2020). He was coeditor, with Robert Kolb, of the English edition of the Book of Concord (Fortress, 2000) and translated Luther's Small Catechism, used throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He lives in Long Valley, New Jersey.

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