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CONFESSION OF BASEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONFESSION OF BASEL  , one of the many statements of faith produced by the Reformation . It was put out in 1534 and must be distinguished from the First and Second Helvetic Confessions, its author being Oswald Myconius, who based it on a shorter confession promulgated by Oecolampadius, his predecessor in the church at Basel . Though it was an attempt to bring into
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line with the reforming party both those who still inclined to the old faith and the anabaptist section, its publication provoked a good
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deal of controversy, especially on its statements concerning the Eucharist, and the
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people of Strassburg even reproached those of Basel with celebrating a Christless supper . Up to the
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year 1826 the Confession (sometimes also known as the Confession of Mtihlhausen from its adoption by that
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town) was publicly read from the pulpits of Basel on the Wednesday of Passion week in each year . In 1872 a
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resolution of the
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great council of the city practically annulled it .

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