Sources and Contexts of the Book of Concord

Born in controversy and raised in university settings the Lutheran reform movement was embroiled immediately publicly and perennially in theological disputes and political battles. While controversies during Martin Luthers lifetime centered on disagreements with Rome and Geneva present and later differences emerged over interpreting Luthers and Melanchthons theologies on such issues as governmental interference liturgical practices justifications implications for good works and sin the Lords supper and election. It is this defining dis-concord alternating with attempts at concord and conciliation that is reflected in the documents newly translated in this indispensable documentary companion to The Book of Concord which includes the works of Agricola Eck Chemnitz Melanchthon and Luther.