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Augsburg Confession   /ˈɔgzbərg kənfˈɛʃən/   Listen
Augsburg Confession

noun
1.
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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"Augsburg Confession" Quotes from Famous Books



... only in details of discipline and government, but in the general spirit in which the Reformation in the two countries was being conducted. But an alliance of the kind contemplated would perhaps have been carried out had it not been for the bigotry which insisted upon signature of the Augsburg Confession. Queen Elizabeth was at one time inclined to join on behalf of England the Smalcaldic League of German Protestants, but the same obstacle intervened.[322] Cromwell is said to have cherished a great project of establishing a permanent Protestant Council, in which all the principal Reformed ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton


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