The Catholicity of the Augsburg Confession

A. Dulles

DOI:10.1086/487060

Corpus ID: 170148693

The Catholicity of the Augsburg Confession

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

A. Dulles
Published 1983
Political Science
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… Expand

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