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Augsburg Confession
1530 primary confession of faith of the Lutheran tradition
Augsburg Confession
The Augsburg Confession (German: Augsburger Bekenntnis), also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin title, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Protestant Reformation. A summary of the Christian faith drawn for the Diet of Augsburg, it was composed in both German and Latin and presented to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, by a number of German rulers and free cities on 25 June 1530. The confession was written by Luther, Melanchthon, and two others. Charles V had called upon the princes and free territories of the Holy Roman Empire to explain their religious convictions in an attempt to restore religious and political unity within the Empire and to rally support against the Ottoman invasion following the 16th-century Siege of Vienna. The original confession was subsequently submitted to twenty Catholic theologians, who approved nine articles, approved six with qualifications...
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