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| genre= |series= | published= 1580 |publisher= |english_pub_date= | media_type= | pages= | isbn= |oclc= |dewey= |congress= | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} ''The Book of Concord'' or ''Concordia'' (1580) is the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, consisting of ten credal documents recognized as authoritative in Lutheranism since the 16th century. They are also known as the symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.〔F. Bente, ed. and trans., ''Concordia Triglotta'', (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), p. i〕 ''The Book of Concord'' was published in German on June 25, 1580 in Dresden, the fiftieth anniversary of the presentation of the ''Augsburg Confession'' to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. The authoritative Latin edition was published in 1584 in Leipzig.〔F. Bente, ed. and trans., ''Concordia Triglotta'', (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), p. 5.〕 Those who accept it as their doctrinal standard recognize it to be a faithful exposition of the Bible. The Holy Scriptures are set forth in ''The Book of Concord'' to be the sole, divine source and norm of all Christian doctrine.〔Formula of Concord, Epitome, Rule and Norm, 1 (Bente, op. cit., 777)〕 ==Origin and arrangement== ''The Book of Concord'' was compiled by a group of theologians led by Jakob Andreae and Martin Chemnitz at the behest of their rulers, who desired an end to the religious controversies in their territories that arose among Lutherans after the death of Martin Luther in 1546.〔Robert Kolb ''et al.'', ''The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church'', (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000), 481-485.〕 It was intended to replace German territorial collections of doctrinal statements, known as ''corpora doctrinæ'' (bodies of doctrine) like the ''Corpus doctrinæ Philippicum'' or ''Misnicum''. This aim is reflected by the compilers' not calling it a ''corpus doctrinæ'' although it technically is one.〔F. Bente writes in his ''Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church'', §1: "Book of Concord, or Concordia, is the title of the Lutheran ''corpus doctrinae'', i.e., of the symbols recognized and published under that name by the Lutheran Church" (F. Bente, ed. and trans., ''Concordia Triglotta'', St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921, p. 3). The German Wikipedia article :de:Konkordienbuch states: "In diesem Sinne kann es auch als Kanon oder Corpus doctrinae der lutherischen Kirche bezeichnet werden": "In this sense it can also be described as the ''canon'' or ''corpus doctrinæ'' of the Lutheran Church." The Kolb-Wengert edition of the Book of Concord states: "The authors of the Formula of Concord responded to objections from followers of Melanchthon who treasured the ''Corpus doctrinae Philippicum'', and therefore they did not use the term ''corpus doctrinae'' when they prepared the Formula for publication with the ancient creeds of the church, the Augsburg Confession and its Apology, and Luther’s Smalcald Articles and Catechisms after the completion of the Formula in 1577" (Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert, eds. and trans., ''The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church'', Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000, p. 2).〕 The list of writings predating the ''Formula of Concord'' that would be included in ''The Book of Concord'' are listed and described in the "Rule and Norm" section of the ''Formula''.〔Theodore G. Tappert, trans and ed. ''The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church'', (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1959), 503-506; Kolb, ''op cit.'', 526-529〕 Following the preface written by Andreae and Chemnitz (1578–80)〔Tappert, ''op. cit.'', 3, note 1〕 the "Three Ecumenical Creeds" were placed at the beginning in order to show the identity of Lutheran teaching with that of the ancient Christian church.〔''ibidem'', 17; Kolb, ''op. cit.'', 19.〕 These creeds were the Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed, which were formulated before the East-West Schism of 1054, but the Nicene Creed is the western version containing the filioque. The other documents come from the earliest years of the Lutheran Reformation (1529–77). They are the ''Augsburg Confession'', the ''Apology of the Augsburg Confession'', both by Philipp Melanchthon, the ''Small'' and ''Large Catechisms'' of Martin Luther, his ''Smalcald Articles'', Melanchthon's ''Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope'', and the ''Formula of Concord'', which was composed shortly before the publishing of the Book of Concord and intended for the same purpose: the pacification and unification of the growing Lutheran movement. The preface of the Book of Concord was considered to be the preface of the ''Formula of Concord'' as well.〔Tappert, op. cit., 3, ftn. 1.〕 The ''Augsburg Confession'' has singular importance as the unanimous consensus and exposition of our Christian faith, particularly against the false worship, idolatry, and superstition of the papacy and against other sects, and as the symbol of our time, the first and unaltered Augsburg Confession, which was delivered to Emperor Charles V at Augsburg during the great Diet in the year 1530 ...〔Tappert, ''op. cit.'', 465.〕A recent book on Lutheranism asserts, "To this day ... the Augsburg Confession ... remains the basic definition of what it means to be a 'Lutheran.'"〔Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand, ''The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church'', (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008), 16.〕''The Apology'', the ''Smalcald Articles'', the ''Treatise'', and the ''Formula of Concord'' explain, defend, or serve as addenda to ''The Augsburg Confession.''〔''ibidem'', 8, note 9; 97-98; 287ff.; 319; 465; 504-505.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Book of Concord」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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