The Defense of the Augsburg Confession


Read by Jonathan Lange

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The Apology of the Augsburg Confession was written by Philip Melanchthon during and after the 1530 Diet of Augsburg as a response to the Pontifical Confutation of the Augsburg Confession, Charles V's commissioned official Roman Catholic response to the Lutheran Augsburg Confession of June 25, 1530. It was intended to be a defense of the Augsburg Confession and a refutation of the Confutation. It was signed as a confession of faith by leading Lutheran magnates and clergy at the meeting of the Smalcald League in February, 1537, and subsequently included in the German [1580] and Latin [1584] Book of Concord. As the longest document in the Book of Concord, it offers the most detailed Lutheran response to the Roman Catholicism of that day as well as an extensive Lutheran exposition of the doctrine of Justification. (By Wikipedia) (0 hr 1 min)

Chapters

00-Preface: Greetings & God (AC 1) 8:09 Read by Jonathan Lange
01-I: Original Sin & Christ (AC 2 & 3) 29:15 Read by Jonathan Lange
02-II: Justification (AC 4.1) 1:04:00 Read by Jonathan Lange
03-III(1-61): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) 39:02 Read by Jonathan Lange
04-III(62-164): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) 1:13:53 Read by Jonathan Lange
05-III(165-222): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) 47:18 Read by Jonathan Lange
06-III(223-279): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) 35:31 Read by Jonathan Lange
07-IV: Church, Baptism, Holy Supper, & Confession (AC 7-11) 48:04 Read by Jonathan Lange
08-V: Repentance (AC 12.1) 55:28 Read by Jonathan Lange
09-VI: Repentance (AC 12.2) 50:16 Read by Jonathan Lange
10-VII: Number and Use of Sacraments & Ecclesiastical Order (AC 13-14) 12:51 Read by Jonathan Lange
11-VIII: Human Traditions, Political Order, Christ's Return, Free Will, Cause o… 50:49 Read by Jonathan Lange
12-IX: Invocation of the Saints (AC 21) 26:22 Read by Jonathan Lange
13-X: Both Kinds in the Sacrament (AC 22) 10:05 Read by Jonathan Lange
14-XI: Marriage of Priests (AC 23) 39:43 Read by Jonathan Lange
15-XII: The Mass (AC 24) 1:11:12 Read by Jonathan Lange
16-XIII: Monastic Vows (AC 27) 42:33 Read by Jonathan Lange
17-XIV: Ecclesiastical Power (AC 28) 17:12 Read by Jonathan Lange