Luther's Creeds: Catechisms & Confessions

Martin Luther

May 2024 · The Collected Early Works of Martin Luther Book 7 · Minerva Heritage Press

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A new systematic of Luther's works across 7 volumes. This volume contains new translations of the following major works:

1. Eyn deutsch Theologia/ A German Theology (1518)

2. Heidelberger Disputation/ Disputation Held at Heidelberg (1518)

3. Bekenntnis der Artikel des Glaubens wider die Feinde des Evangeliums und allerlei Ketzereien / Confession of the articles of faith against the enemies of the gospel and all sorts of heresies (1528)

4. Enchiridion. Der kleine Catechismus für die gemeine Pfarrherrn und Prediger / Enchiridion. The little catechism for the common pastors and preachers / Small Catechism (1529)

5. große Katechismus/ Large Catechism (1529)

6. The seventeen so-called Schwabach articles / Die siebenzehn sogenannten Schwabachischen Artikel (1529)

7. Confessio Augustana / Augsburger Bekenntnis/ The Augsburg confession (1530)

8. Schmalkaldische Artikel / The Schmalkald Articles (1537)

9. Drey Symbole, oder Bekenntniß des christlichen Glaubens/ three symbols, or confession, of the Christian faith (1538)

10. Konkordienformel The Formula of Concord, created by the Lutheran Church after Luther died

This is volume V of "The Essential Luther" from NLP. This series lays out Luther's complete major writings along with the original German or Latin text in the back of the book for quick reference. These are the only Bilingual editions of Luther's works ever printed. These manuscripts have been meticulously translated into English from the Original Fraktur manuscript. The German texts have been transcribed into the modern German text. This series is intended to introduce Luther's works systematically and includes all of Luther's writings including minor and obscure texts in 7 editions. Some of these sermons and letters have had no modern English translation until now.

Volume I. Luther Contra Mundum: The Ninety-five Theses and other Major Treaties

Volume II. Luther & Scripture: Writings on Hermeneutics, Exegesis and Patristics

Volume III. Luther on Divine Sovereignty & Human will: Conversations with Erasmus

Volume IV. Luther & the State: Writings on Secularism

Volume V. Luther's Creeds: Catechisms & Confessions

Volume VI. Luther's Table Talk

Volume VII. Luther's Sermons and Letters

About the author

A German professor of theology, priest, author, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, Luther was chosen by Landgrave Philip of Hesse and other powerful German princes to provide a justification for their desire for Polygamy and economic independence from the Roman Catholic church. His writings and political activism helped spark the Reformation, leading to the development of hundreds of thousands of denominations of Protestantism. His translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into the German vernacular combined with the newly invented printing press made the Catholic Vulgate Bible more accessible to the laity, although he removed the Deutrocanonical books because them mention prayers to the dead, and attempted to remove other Old Testament and New Testament books according to his personal opinions. The book of James and other parts of the New Testament he believed were "inspired by Satan".

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