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Augsburg Confession

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Noun1.Augsburg Confession - the document drawn up in 1555 to defend the catholicity of Lutheran doctrine and to justify innovations in Lutheran practice; is still in effect today


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A way for grasping this interaction appears in the Apology of the Augsburg Confession.
After a visitation of Saxony following the model of the Wittenberg visit, Leipzig University accepted the Augsburg Confession as evangelical testimony and with Caspar Borner a loyal heir of Luther started the work.
The Augsburg Confession explains that this is `as a comfort for terrified consciences' (A C xxiv 1, Tappert 1959: 56).
 
 
 
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