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Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Friedrich Bente’s Historical Introductions to the Book of Concord allows the reader to gain an understanding of the confessional underpinnings of the Lutheran church.

their corpus doctrinae. (Compare Historical Introduction to the Formula of Concord.) Among the corpora doctrinae which were gradually superseded by the Book of Concord are the following: 1. Corpus Doctrinae Philippicum, or Misnicum, or Wittenbergense of 1560, containing besides the Three Ecumenical Symbols, the following works of Melanchthon: Variata, Apologia, Repetitio Augustanae Confessionis, Loci, Examen Ordinandorum of 1552, Responsio ad Articulos Bavaricae Inquisitionis, Refutatio Serveti. Melanchthon,
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