Augsburg Confession
- noun
- /ˈɔɡzˌbɜrɡ kənˈfɛʃən/
- Formal
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Confesión de Augsburgo
- At the heart of Lutheran theology is the Augsburg Confession, which was presented in 1530 to defend the faith.
Examples
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The Augsburg Confession was thus both a theological text and a political act at the same time.
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Times have indeed changed since the writing of the Augsburg Confession, and in the most telling way.
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Here, toward the end of his life, he repeated what he had written in article seven of the Augsburg Confession.
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In this scenario, the Diet of Augsburg and the Augsburg Confession provided the impetus for change.
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Thus, the first and abiding controversy concerned the meaning and the role to be assigned to Article 7 of the unaltered Augsburg Confession.
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In 1530, it subscribed to the Augsburg Confession, and in 1531 joined the League of Schmalkald.
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Indeed, the negotiations that followed submission of the Augustana, Eck's Refutatio, and preceded Melanchthon's Apologia suggest that once the Augsburg Confession was rejected, the gloves came off on both sides for the simple reason that no agreement could be reached.
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The Augsburg Confession is a vital document in the history of the Lutheran church, outlining its core beliefs.
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Many Lutheran congregations still honor the Augsburg Confession as an expression of their doctrinal commitments.
Synonyms
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A public statement of religious faith by a person or church
Surface Forms
Morphology
Augsburg + confession
The phrase is compositionally a place name + 'confession', so a learner who knows 'Augsburg' as a city and 'confession' as a formal church statement can infer it denotes a confession associated with Augsburg (i.e., a church document from that place). However, the detailed historical sense — that it is the specific 1530 Lutheran statement defending doctrine — cannot be derived from the constituents alone, so full meaning requires prior cultural/historical knowledge.
Etymology
Augsburg Confession is named for the city Augsburg, where Martin Luther's followers presented a formal paper to the emperor in 1530. They called it a Confession in the older sense of a formal 'statement' of faith to explain and defend their beliefs, so the name now means that important set of Lutheran beliefs.