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The Reformation · 25 June 1580
The Book of Concord
The Lutheran churches of Germany
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What it is
The three ancient creeds bound together with the Augsburg Confession, its Apology, the Smalcald Articles, both catechisms, and the Formula of Concord.
Why it lasted
The complete confessional standard of Lutheranism, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Augsburg and unchanged since.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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