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	Confession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confession of one's sins, or at least of one's sinfulness, is seen by most churches as a pre-requisite for becoming a Christian.
		Confession is then made to the person wronged, and is seen to be as much part of the reconciliation process as it is theological.
		In the Anglican church a formalised, private confession to a priest may be used which, while similar in practice and theology to the Catholic one, is not considered essential.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confession (1864 words)

	Augsburg Confession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Augsburg Confession, in Latin Confessio Augustana, is the central document of the Lutheran reformation, which was a reaction against the Roman Catholic Church.
		The resulting document, the Augsburg Confession was presented to the Emperor on June 25, 1530.
		Concerning Confession - A statement supporting the practice of confession, though it is not accepted to be a sacrament, and it is stated that not all sins are capable of being confessed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Augsburg_Confession (1160 words)

	Augsburg Confession
		The Augsburg Confession is a Lutheran Confession of Faith that was issued (1530) during the Reformation at the Diet of Augsburg.
		The second part of the Augsburg Confession reviews the "abuses" for which remedy was demanded, such as withholding the cup from the laity in Holy Communion and forbidding priests to marry.
		The Augsburg Confession is the basic Lutheran confession of faith or statement of what is believed in loyalty to Christ and his Word.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/augsburg.htm (1321 words)

	Augsburg Confession -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Latin Confessio Augustana the 28 articles that constitute the basic confession of the Lutheran churches, 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.
		Augsburg is the capital of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk (administrative district) of Schwaben (Swabia).
		The document was based on the Augsburg Confession, and it upheld the Lutheran position on justification and the Calvinist interpretation of the Eucharist.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011245?tocId=9011245&query=apology (783 words)

	Encyclopedia: Augsburg confession
		The Diet of Augsburg was an assembly convened by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 in Augsburg now in central Germany.
		Anabaptists who teach that to be baptized is to be free of sin are condemned.
		The Apology of the Augsburg Confession was formulated by Philip Melanchthon as the response to the Roman Confutation against the Augsburg Confession.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Augsburg-confession (2711 words)

	Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had called upon the Princes and Territories of Lutheran confession in Germany to explain their religious convictions with to resolve the question of reformation and support against the Turkish invasion.
		This is an English translation of the Augsburg Confession, the key formative Lutheran Confession from 1530.
		The original Augsburg Confession was produced in German and Latin, and read out in the Augsburg conference in German (hence that language version i...
	www.freeglossary.com /Augsburg_confession (266 words)

	Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		the 28 articles that constitute the basic confession of the Lutheran churches, presented June 25, 1530, in German and Latin at the Diet of Augsburg to the emperor Karl V by seven Lutheran princes and two imperial free cities.
		The unaltered 1530 version of the Confession has always been authoritative for Lutherans, but proponents of the eucharistic doctrine of Zwingli (1484-1531) and Calvin (1509-1564) received a modified edition prepared by Melanchthon (the Variata of 1540).
		The Confession was translated into English in 1536 and was a definite influence on the Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglicans and the Twenty-five Articles of Religion of the Methodists.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/AugsburgConfession/AugsburgConfession.html (205 words)

	Sermons and Papers
		Confession also means hearing the absolution, for when we confess our sins and a fellow Christian, usually the pastor, pronounces absolution on us, we are hearing the very words of Christ Himself.
		Public confession is when the entire assembled congregation confesses their sins and together receive the absolution from the pastor.
		The Augsburg Confession was presented a week before the Corpus Christi festival in which the Sacrament is paraded down the street while being adored by the faithful.
	www.confessionallutherans.org /papers/augsburg.html (10967 words)

	Augsburg Confession
		Of Confession they teach that Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession an enumeration of all sins is not necessary.
		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.
		But of Confession they teach that an enumeration of sins is not necessary, and that consciences be not burdened with anxiety to enumerate all sins, for it is impossible to recount all sins, as the Psalm testifies, 19,13: Who can understand his errors?
	www.apuritansmind.com /Creeds/AugsburgConfession.htm (11189 words)

	Are the Lutheran Confessions a Practical Document Today?
		The Unaltered Augsburg Confession and its Apology, the Catechisms and Schmalcald Articles, and the Formula of Concord, have been formally declared by an immense majority of the Lutheran Church as their Confession of Faith.
		Confessions or symbols are official formulations of the common faith of the Church.
		Bona-fide subscription to these Confessions is required of Lutheran ministers, because the Church must see to it that those who go forth in her name preach only the pure doctrines of the Gospel as she holds them.
	www.angelfire.com /ny4/djw/lutherantheology.practical.html (8137 words)

	FLC - Augsburg Confession
		However, as part of these agreements, we and the other church bodies are asking each other to understand, and in some cases, to accept, the validity of each other's teachings.
		My source will be the Book of Concord, the collected confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and specifically, for the next 28 issues, the Augsburg Confession, the 1530 document which cemented the Reformation of the Church.
		This will be, however, a place where we can briefly touch on what it means to be a Lutheran Christian today, and how the Lutheran Confessions can inform our faith, and be "true witnesses and faithful expositions" of the Scriptures (words taken from the service of ordination).
	www.toad.net /~flc/augsburg.html (303 words)

	The Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Augsburg Confession is the heart of the Lutheran Confessions.
		He called upon the Lutheran nobility to explain their religious convictions, with the hope that the controversy swirling around the challange of the Reformation might be resolved.
		The Augsburg Confession is a profound and powerfully accurate statement of the Christian faith.
	www.princeofpeacelutheran.org /augsburgconf.html (229 words)

	Presentation of the Augsburg Confession
		The Augsburg Confession is the principle confessional document of the Lutheran Church.
		The confession stresses that Holy Scripture is the only source of Christian doctrine and that salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ is the central doctrine around which all other teachings revolve.
		The men who signed the Augsburg Confession were not bishops or theologians, but laymen who put their very lives in danger by their fearless public confession.
	www.stpaulskingsville.org /augsburg.htm (644 words)

	Apology of the Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the confessions of Lutheranism, a defense and elaboration of the Augsburg Confession, written by the Reformer Philipp Melanchthon in 1531.
		The first version of the Apology was hastily written and presented to Emperor Charles V on Sept. 22, 1530, at the Diet of Augsburg, after the Emperor had declared that the Confutation (Aug. 3, 1530), prepared by Catholic theologians to refute the Augsburg Confession (June 25, 1530), properly presented his Catholic faith.
		Seven times longer than the Augsburg Confession, the Apology is considered one of the most brilliant of the Reformation theological works.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/ApologyAugsburgConfession/ApologyAugsburgConfession.html (276 words)

	The Augsburg Confession And Polity: Where We've All Screwed Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It confesses that we Lutherans are a part of the Church Catholic, and it defines the church and the ordained office in the church in such a way that the reality of the Church Catholic is taken seriously.
		It seems to me that the Augsburg Confession holds the pastors accountable for these things in relationship to the people under their charge; then bishops are to see to it that the pastors do what they are called and ordained to do.
		Clearly, the Augsburg Confession sees the pastoral office as being from above, and has the conviction that pastors and bishops will ultimately have to give account of their stewardship of the Means of Grace that have been committed to their charge.
	users.aol.com /SemperRef/polity.html (3796 words)

	The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of the great events of Luther's Reformation, the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V on June 25, 1530, truly deserves to be at the head of the list.
		It was Melanchthon who wrote the Augsburg Confession, though he communicated with Luther daily by letter, making sure that everything was as it should be.
		They wanted to confess their faith in such a way that two things would happen: (1) everyone would know clearly what they believed according to Scripture; and (2) everyone would see that they were not a new sect but that they believed what the Christian Church had always believed, but which had recently been lost.
	users.rcn.com /tlclcms/augs.html (1115 words)

	Sermon on the Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is a confession that was presented in the city of Augsburg, Germany, on June 25, 1530, 470 years ago.
		Up until that point Luther and his followers were trying to reform the Catholic Church from its errors but at Augsburg it became very evident that it had rejected the truth of God's Word, and from then on the Lutherans organized a church body of their own.
		The Augsburg Confession stresses the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as the center of the Christian Faith and this was heard by electors, princes, bishops, representatives of the free cities, foreign ambassadors, and many others.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/lutheranism/43335 (1653 words)

	The Augsburg Confession
		Also Jeremiah, 17 9: The heart is deceitful; who can know it; But if no sins were forgiven, except those that are recounted, consciences could never find peace; for very many sins they neither see nor can remember.
		For in the Decrees, Chrysostom is quoted, who says thus: I say not to you that you should disclose yourself in public, nor that you accuse yourself before others, but I would have you obey the prophet who says: "Disclose thy self before God." Therefore confess your sins before God, the true Judge, with prayer.
		For it is manifest that we have taken most diligent care that no new and ungodly doctrine should creep into our churches.
	www.crta.org /documents/augsburg.html (11020 words)

	Bullinger and the Second Helvetic Confession. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The whole text of the Confession is to be found in Schaff's 'Creeds of Christendom' Volume III, Appendix I, in Cochrane's 'Reformed Confessions of the 16th Century', and in Leith's 'Creed's of the Churches'.
		Bullinger initially composed this Confession in 1561 for his own use 'as an abiding testimony of the faith in which he had lived and in which he wished to die'.
		The Confession is too extended for a detailed analysis and so we make some general observations and only point to certain particular aspects of interest.
	www.pcea.asn.au /bullingr.html (2202 words)

	Camassia: Notes on the Augsburg Confession
		The Confession was written by Luther's friend Philip Melanchthon, to spell out the movement's positions at the request of the Holy Roman Emperor.
		The Confession affirms a lot of basic Catholic creeds and takes care to reject ancient heresies such as Pelagianism and Donatism, and also rejects some splinter groups around at the time, especially the Anabaptists.
		Melanchthon responded with the Apology for the Confession which elaborates on the AC and answers the points made by the Confutation.
	camassia.notfrisco2.com /archives/003523.html (2241 words)

	Augsburg Confession on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Melanchthonian method as a guide to reading confessions of faith: the index of the Book of Concord and Late Reformation learning.
		The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
		The 'summae confessorum' on the integrity of confession as prolegomena for Luther and Trent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-A1ugsburgC1on.asp (252 words)

	Thursday Theology - Augsburg Confession & Luther's Catechisms
		The biographical predicates to him in the text of the article are the means by which he became that Lord.
		Baptism, Lord's Supper and Confession & Absolution are three resources (means of grace) that God supplies for staying connected to Christ in our struggle to live by faith in daily life.
		SECTION A. Select TWO spokes from the Wheel of the Augsburg Confession (our diagram of wheel and spokes and rim from our first class session) and write one essay on each of the two topics that you chose.
	www.crossings.org /thursday/Thur0304.htm (1566 words)

	On The Augsburg Confession
		It was given to the Emperor at Augsburg, not accepted by the Catholic Church.
		Augsburg Confession in 20:23: "Faith does not mean knowledge of an event.
		The third, and most vital, is omitted in the Augsburg Confession.
	www.cfpeople.org /Apologetics/page51a035.html (1313 words)

	BIO: Augsburg Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (25 June 1530)
		The Augsburg Confession (using the word "confession" to mean "statement of faith" rather than "acknowledgement of guilt") was written in Latin and German editions, and presented to the Diet of Augsburg on 25 June 1530.
		Other confessional statements in use among Lutherans, though not having the same authority as those just cited, include the Defense (Apology) of the Augsburg Confession (by Melanchthon), the Smalcald Articles (by Luther), the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, the Formula of Concord, the Catalog of Testimonies, and the Visitation Articles.
	www.hillsdale.edu /Personal/Westblade/REL/Biography/06/25.html (803 words)

	Untitled
		The Augsburg Confession is the first of the great Protestant Confessions.
		All orthodox Lutheran church bodies base their teachings upon this treatise because they believe that it is a faithful to Word of God.
		The confession was presented to Charles V in both Latin and German.
	www.frontiernet.net /~wndlnd/Augsburg.html (11133 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Calvinism
		Nevertheless, that "declaration" was dropped by Beza when, in company with Farel, he put together a "Confession of the French Church," and fell back on the creed of Augsburg issued in 1530, while not assenting to its 10th article.
		The Augsburg Confession, revised by its author Melanchthon, favoured ambiguous views -- at last he declared boldly for Calvin, which amounted to an acknowledgment that Luther's more decided language overshot the mark.
		Maurice of Hesse-Cassel patronized the Synod of Dort; and John Sigismund of Brandenburg, exchanging the Lutheran tenets for the Genevese, imposed on his Prussians the "Confession of the Marches." In general, the reformed Protestants allowed dogmatic force to the revised Confession of Augsburg (1540) which Calvin himself had signed.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03198a.htm (5893 words)

	The Augsburg Confession
		1] Of Confession they teach that Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession 2] an enumeration of all sins is not necessary.
		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.
		There were endless contentions between the pastors and the monks concerning the parochial right, confessions, burials, sermons on extraordinary occasions, and 3] innumerable other things.
	www.bookofconcord.org /augsburgconfession.html (11064 words)

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