• DOI:10.1086/487060
• Corpus ID: 170148693

The Catholicity of the Augsburg Confession

@article{Dulles1983TheCO,
  title={The Catholicity of the Augsburg Confession},
  author={Avery Cardinal Dulles},
  journal={The Journal of Religion},
  year={1983},
  volume={63},
  pages={337 - 354}
}

• A. Dulles
• Published 1 October 1983
• Philosophy
• The Journal of Religion

The researches of the past few years converge in understanding that the CA [Confessio Augustana] as the basic Lutheran confessional document was drawn up as it was not only for diplomatic reasons, that it might be possible to interpret it under the laws of the empire as a catholic confession; it was also drafted with inner conviction as a searching for evangelical catholicity-as a painstaking effort to filter the bubbling cauldron of the early Reformation movement in such a way that it might give it the shape of a catholic reform. Accordingly, efforts are under way to achieve a Catholic recognition of the CA or, more correctly, a recognition of the CA as catholic, and thereby to establish the catholicity of the churches of the CA, which makes possible a corporate union while the differences remain.1