Category Archives: Augsburg Confession

Speaking Before Kings

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Matthew Phillips

“I am tremendously pleased to have lived to this moment when Christ, by his staunch confessors, has publicly been proclaimed in such a great assembly by means of this really most beautiful confession. And [so the word] is fulfilled: ‘I … Continue reading →

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Melanchthon on the Sacraments

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Matthew Phillips

“Sacraments are signs of God’s will toward us, not simply signs of the people’s will among themselves, and so it is right to define the New Testament sacraments as signs of grace.  A sacrament consists of two parts, the sign … Continue reading →

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