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BOOK OF CONCORD (Liber Concordiae)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 831 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOOK OF See also:CONCORD (See also:Liber Concordiae)  , the collective documents of the Lutheran See also:confession, consisting of the Confessio Augustana, the Apologia Confessionis Augustanae, the Articula Smalcaldici, the Catechismi See also:Major et See also:Minor and the See also:Formula Concordiae . This last was a formula issued on the 25th of See also:June 158o (the See also:jubilee of the See also:Augsburg Confession) by the Lutheran See also:Church in an See also:attempt to heal the See also:breach which, since the See also:death of See also:Luther, had been widening between the extreme See also:Lutherans and the Crypto-Calvinists . Previous attempts at See also:concord had been made at the See also:request of different rulers, especially by See also:Jacob See also:Andrea with his Swabian See also:Concordia in 1573, and See also:Abel Scherdinger with the Maulbronn Formula in 1575 . In 1576 the elector of See also:Saxony called a See also:conference of theologians at See also:Torgau to discuss these two efforts and from them produce a third . The See also:Book of Torgau was evolved, circulated and criticized; a new See also:committee, prominent on which was See also:Martin See also:Chemnitz, sitting at See also:Bergen near See also:Magdeburg, considered the criticisms and finally See also:drew up , the Formula Concordiae . It consists of (a) the " See also:Epitome," (b) the " Solid Repetition and See also:Declaration," each See also:part comprising twelve articles; and was accepted by Saxony, See also:Wurttemberg, See also:Baden among other states, but rejected by See also:Hesse, See also:Nassau and See also:Holstein . Even the See also:free cities were divided, See also:Hamburg and See also:Lubeck for, See also:Bremen and See also:Frankfort against . See also:Hungary and See also:Sweden accepted it, and so finally did See also:Denmark, where at first it was rejected, and its publication made a See also:crime punishable by death . In spite of this very limited reception the Formula Concordiae has always been reckoned with the five other documents as of See also:confessional authority . See P . See also:Schaff, See also:Creeds of Christendom, i . 258-340, iii .

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