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The Lutheran Confessions: History and Theology of the Book of Concord is unavailable, but you can change that!

From their formulation in the sixteenth century through the present day, every generation of Lutheran leadership has grappled with the centrality and importance of the Lutheran confessional writings. In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The...

in themselves; those in Magdeburg pondered first how they affected their hearers. Such waters ran fast and deep. It is little wonder that the dispute over “neutral” matters lingered in the air; for confession of the faith, preserving the integrity of the church in relation to the secular government, the practice of sacred worship, and the definition of Christian freedom are not matters of indifference. The Interims and the resulting controversy over adiaphora
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