The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

by Robert Kolb, Timothy J Editors Wengert, Eric Gritsch (Translator), Charles Arnad (Translator), Timothy J. Wengert (Editor)

Overview

Commissioned in 1993, this translation of The Book of Concord brings a new generation of scholarship and sensitivities to bear on the foundational texts of Lutheran identity. The fifth English translation since 1851, this edition succeeds that edited by Theodore Tappert published in 1959 by Muhlenburg Press.

A review of the text in light of a mountain of new scholarship and other factors dictated the new translation and apparatus, including changes in the English language over the past forty years, differences in the training and preparation of seminarians and pastors, limitations in the introductions and annotations to the various parts of the book, new knowledge of the history and theology of these very documents, and the occasional error in Tappert's translation.

Kolb and Wengert's team of leading Reformation historians was augmented by consultation with one hundred other scholars and teachers who use The Book of Concord continually, and two other teams of scholars who have reviewed the translations. In coming years, two volumes of related documents will follow.

Benefits of this new translation:

Expanded introductions and annotations offer richer historical context

New translation aims at accessible but accurate translation

Format is easier to read and use

Leading American scholars have been involved or consulted

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800627409
Publisher:	Concordia Publishing House
Publication date:	08/28/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	774
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.94(d)

About the Author

Robert Kolb, professor of systematic theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri, has taught on five continents and written or edited some thirty books, including The Book of Concord, coedited with Timothy J. Wengert (Fortress Press, 2000), and The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, coedited with Irene Dingel and Lubomir Batka (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Timothy J. Wengert is emeritus professor of church history at the United Lutheran Seminary. He has written extensively on Luther, Melanchthon, and the Reformation, including The Augsburg Confession: Renewing Lutheran Faith and Practice (Fortress, 2020). He was coeditor, with Robert Kolb, of the English edition of the Book of Concord (Fortress, 2000) and translated Luther's Small Catechism, used throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He lives in Long Valley, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Abbreviations	xi
	Editors' Introduction to the Book of Concord	1
	Title Page to the Book of Concord (1580)	3
	Preface to the Book of Concord (1580)	5
	The Three Ecumenical Creeds	19
	The Augsburg Confession (1530)	27
	Apology of the Augsburg Confession (September 1531)	107
	The Smalcald Articles (1537)	295
	Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537)	329
	The Small Catechism (1529)	345
	The Large Catechism (1529)	377
	Formula of Concord (1577)	481
	Index of Biblical References	661
	Biographical Index	677
	Subject Index	695