The Augsburg Confession

MP3 Audio CD. The Augsburg Confession was penned during the Diet of Augsburg and was contemplated to be the most important document of the Protestant Reformation. The Diet of Augsburg were the sessions of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in Augsburg, a city of Germany, deliberating about Reformation, religion, and Protestantism. The Protestant Reformation was also referred to as restoration or renewal and the European Reformation. It was a division among the people from the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other reformers during the 16th century. They protestant reformers had the sole intention of rectifying the Roman Catholic Church.

The Augsburg Confession was written by Philippus Melanchthon born as Philipp Schwartzerdt. He was a German Lutheran reformer in collaboration with Martin Luther, the first methodical theologian of the Protestant Reformation, and a professor at Wittenburg of significantly devised instructional structures. He was one of the co-founders of Lutheranism together with Luther. He was described as a very smart leader as opposed to Martin Luther?s basic outlooks.

They believed that there is no certainty of salvation through having faith and observing the sacrament of penance by the Catholic Church. They did not believe of the doctrine of transubstantiation, that according to the Catholic religion, is the altering of substance by which the bread and the wine offered in the Eucharist in the Holy Mass become the body and blood of Jesus Christ. They do believe that the body and blood of Jesus Christ are existing in the components of bread and wine in the Holy Eucharist.

Philipp Melanchthon was born at Bretten, near Karlsruhe, his father Georg Schwarzerdt was an armorer to Philip, Count Palatine of the Rhine. The entire city of Bretten was set on fire by French troops at the time of the War of the Palatinate Succession.