Augsburg Confession

History The Augsburg Confession was one of the earliest confessions of the Reformation. It was written in 1530, in response to a request from Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire to the Lutherans asking them to explain their reli- gious convictions at a church meet- ing (“diet”) to be held in Augsburg, Germany. Charles’ hope was to rec- oncile religious differences between the Roman Catholic Church and the German princes and free terri- tories who supported Protestantism. Because the...