Epitome of the Formula of Concord (1576)
of the Articles in Controversy among the Theologians of the Augsburg Confession, Set Forth and Reconciled in a Christian Way, according to the Direction of God's Word, in the Following Recapitulation.
Condensed from the Torgau Book by Jakob Andreae in 1576
Torgau Book written by Jakob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz, Nikolaus Selnecker, David Chytraeus, Andreas Musculus, Christoph Körner, Caspar Heyderich, Paul Crell, Maximilian Mörlin, Wolfgang Harder, Daniel Gräser, Nicholas Jagenteufel, Johannes Cornicaelius, John Schütz, Martin Mirus, Georg Listenius, and Peter Glaser
Epitome Contents:
- Title Page and Table of Contents
- Comprehensive Summary, Rule and Norm.
- I. Original Sin.
- II. Free Will.
- III. The Righteousness of Faith Before God.
- IV. Good Works.
- V. Law and Gospel.
- VI. The Third Use of the Law.
- VII. The Lord's Supper.
- VIII. The Person of Christ.
- IX. The Descent of Christ Into Hell.
- X. Church Rites - Adiaphora.
- XI. Election.
- End of Articles
- (XII.) Other Heresies and Sects
- Introduction
- Anabaptists
- Schwenkfeldians
- New Arians
- Anti-Trinitarians