The Augsburg Confession, in Latin Confessio Augustana, is the central document of the Lutheran reformation, which was a reaction against the Roman Catholic Church.

It was presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had called upon the Princes and Free Territories of Lutheran confession in Germany to explain their religious convictions in order to resolve the question of reformation, and rally support against the Turkish invasion.

The first official publication Editio princeps was edited by Philipp Melanchthon, a professor at the University of Wittenberg and close friend of Martin Luther. The resulting document, the Augsburg Confession was presented to the Emperor on June 25, 1530.

In 1540, Melanchthon produced a revised edition, the Variata, which was signed by John Calvin. Many Lutheran churches specify in their official documents that they subscribe to the "Unaltered Augsburg Confession", as opposed to the Variata.

The Augsburg Confession (1530) is the primary confessional document of the Lutheran faith and is part of The Book of Concord

External links

• The Augsburg Confession
• The Augsburg Confession (1530) in HTML
• The Augsburg Confession in HTML - Project Wittenberg
• The Augsburg Confession in PDF - Digital Books LOGIA