What Kind of Confession is the Augsburg Confession? | Semantic Scholar
@inproceedings{Paulson2014WhatKO,
title={What Kind of Confession is the Augsburg Confession?},
author={Steven D. Paulson},
year={2014},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:170315824}
}Summary What is the genre of the Augsburg Confession? Knowing this identifies the meaning and use of the document historically and presently. The confession is apocalyptic, despite the disparaging place this genre has held in recent theology. The case comes especially from Martin Luther’s own correspondence of the time and his later recollection of the events given in his 1542 Genesis lectures. In the Genesis lectures Luther connected Augsburg to the conflict Rebecca had come to in the case of…