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FORMULA OF
UADRICENTENNIAL ESSAYS
VOLUME VIII NUMBER4 1977
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THE
SIXTEENTH NTURY
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THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
URNAL
A Journal for Renaissance and Reformation Students and Scholars
VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 4, 1977
CONTENTS
The Formula of Concord, Then and Now LEWIS W. SPITZ 9
Legitimate Limits of Doctrinal Pluralism According to the Formula of Concord
WENZEL LOHFF 23
The Formula of Concord and rhe Teaching Ministry
GEORGE WOLFGANG FORELL 39
The Formula of Concord and Authority in the Church
WARREN A. QUANBECK 49
The Act of Confession-Confessing ARTHUR C. COCHRANE 61
Retrospect and Prospect: Some Unscientific Reflections on the Four Hundreth Anniversary of the Formula of Concord
HERBERT J. A. BOUMAN 85
Striving for the Union of Lutheran Churches The Church-Historical Background of the Work Done on the Formula of Concord at Magdeburg
ERNST KOCH 105
Alliance and Confession: The Theological- Historical Development and Ecclesiastical- Political Significance of Reformation Confessions
GERHARD MtULLER 123
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Editor Robert M. Kingdon
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Managing Editor Book Review Editor Robert V. Schnucker
Northeast Missouri State University
Associate Editor Robert Kolb
Center for Reformation Research
Editorial Committee Hans J. Hillerbrand, City University of New York; James Hitchcock, St. Louis University; De Lamar Jensen, Brigham Young University; Franklin H. Littell, Temple University; Harry J. McSorley, St. Michael's College, Toronto; Charles G. Nauert, Jr., University of Missouri; Steven E. Qzment, Yale University; J. Stanford Reid, University of Guelph, Ontario; Anne Jacobson Schutte,, Law- rence University; Kyle C. Sessions, Illinois State University; A. J. Slavin, Univer- sity of California, Irvine; Raymond B. Waddington, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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THE
FORMULA OF ^P
QUADRICENTENiNiIAL ESSAYS
Sponsored by
Lutheran Council in the USA Division of Theological Studies
and the Center for Reformation Research
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Cover designed by Allan Shickman, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Permission to reprint pictures on pages 142, 143 granted by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri
Permission to reprint pictures on pages 8, 22, 48, 84, 141, granted by Landeskirchlichen Archivs in Nfirnberg.
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