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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 Fortress Press. A review of the text in light of a mountain of new scholarship and other factors dictated...

is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ ”31 [24] Thus we have, in all, five parts covering the whole of Christian teaching, which we should constantly teach and require recitation word for word. For you should not assume that the young people will learn and retain this teaching from sermons alone. [25] When these parts have been well learned, one may assign them also some psalms or hymns,32 based on these subjects, to supplement and confirm
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