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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...

Charlemagne’s reform program apparently did not directly impact the use of the Creed. There was no attempt to replace the textus receptus of the Apostles Creed with the Nicene Creed that was currently used in the Roman rite of the traditio and redditio. This is not to say Charlemagne was not concerned about the baptismal creed.49 He insisted that the same creed be used by all the clergy within his realm.50 The choice of creed fell upon the textus receptus of the Apostles Creed, which was “a native
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