Augsburg Confession

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noun

1. the statement of beliefs and doctrines of the Lutherans, formulated by Melanchthon and endorsed by the Lutheran princes, which was presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 and which became the chief creed of the Lutheran Church.

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Augsburg Confession

The Lutherans published a specific creed defining Lutheran beliefs known as the Augsburg Confession in 1530, and the Catholic Council of Trent in the following decades defined exactly what Catholic doctrine consisted of.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Luther’s final break from Rome came with the Augsburg Confession in 1530, and the rest is no end of history, replete with schisms and catastrophic wars throughout Europe and beyond.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2017

And Mendelssohn wrote the “Reformation” Symphony for the tercentenary — but in 1830, the anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, not 1817, a year after the 7-year-old Mendelssohn, born Jewish, was baptized a Lutheran.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2017

The Augsburg Confession admonishes Lutherans to "engage in just wars."

From Time Magazine Archive

For, strange as it may appear to us, even Pius suspected Charles of favoring innovation—so far had the arch-hypocrite imposed on friend as well as foe by his declaration of adhesion to the Augsburg Confession!

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn