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Contents: Title Page And Introduction Preface to the Christian Book of Concord The Three Ecumenical Creeds {Ancient} The Augsburg Confession (1530) {Philip Melanchthon} The Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531) {Philip Melanchthon} The Smalcald Articles (1537) {Martin Luther} A Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537) {Philip Melanchthon et al.} Luther's Small Catechism (1529) {Martin Luther} Luther's Large Catechism (1529) {Martin Luther} The Formula of Concord (1577) {Jakob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz et al.} Not part of the 1580 Book of Concord but included as appendices in some later editions: Appendix: A Catalog of Testimonies (1580) {assembled by Jakob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz et al.} Appendix: A Brief Admonition To Confession (1529) {Martin Luther} Appendix: The Saxon Visitation Articles (1592) {Dr. Aegidius Hunnius et al.} Not in any edition of the Book of Concord, but here for reference: 95 Theses (1517) {Martin Luther} Refuted Document: Johann Eck's 404 Theses (1530) {Johann Eck} (The Augsburg Confession was written largely in response to these theses) To All the Clergy Assembled in Augsburg at the Diet (1530) {Martin Luther} Refuted Document: Confutatio Pontifica (1530) {Johann Eck} (The Papal Response to The Augsburg Confession and object of the responses contained in the Apology to the Augsburg Confession) Refuted Document: Consenus Tigurinus of John Calvin (1549) {John Calvin} (The Formula of Concord and the Saxon Visitation Articles were written partly in response this Confession) This confutation, or in Latin, the Confutatio Pontificia, was written by Roman Catholic theologians assigned by the papal legate to Emperor Charles V, as a theological rebuttal to the submission by the German princes of their Lutheran confession of faith, the Augsburg Confession. This Roman Catholic response was submitted on August 3, 1530, soon after the Lutheran Confession was made before the Emperor on June 25, 1530 at Augsburg. The Confutation is structured to address each of the articles found in the Augsburg Confession, asserting condemnation or agreement with the addressed article. With each they provide their defensive reasoning and position as to why they accepted (in part or whole) or rejected an article in the Lutheran confession of faith. This confutation then was itself addressed by the Lutherans, in the Apology (a defense) of the Augsburg Confession, which in its final form is a great deal longer than the confession itself. This defense of the Augsburg Confession was formulated by Philip Melanchthon and published in Latin in 1531, after suggested changes by Martin Luther. The Apology was later added, with the Augsburg Confession, and other confessional writings, to what were to become the official confessions of the Lutheran Church, known as the Book of Concord, published in 1580. David Emmons