#WhiteRepentanceMonth - Day #6
Lutheran Proto-Definition

Konbanwa, Fediverse! :frieren_wave:

Today, we have a definition that Luther and others wrote for the 1530 Augsberg Confession, which contains the collective words of German Lutherans expressing and defending their views before Charles V, who convened the Diet of Augsberg to resolve German religious differences in the face of the Ottomans encroaching from the East toward Vienna.

It's not a full definition of repentance in Lutheran theology, like with the London Baptist or Westminster Confessions, as the purpose of the Augsburg Confession was part-apologetic and part-diplomatic, but it does show development of complete and foundational thought within German Protestantism, as well as a conformity of thought with Reformed and Anglican theologians to the West of Germany

｢Article XII. Of Repentance

Of Repentance they teach that for those who have fallen after Baptism there is remission of sins whenever they are converted and that the Church ought to impart absolution to those thus returning to repentance. Now, repentance consists properly of these two parts:

One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ’s sake, sins are forgiven, comfort the conscience, and delivers it from terrors. Then good works are bound to follow, which are the fruits of repentance.

They condemn the Anabaptists, who deny that those once justified can lose the Holy Ghost. Also those who contend that some may attain to such perfection in this life that they cannot sin.

The Novatians also are condemned, who would not absolve such as had fallen after Baptism, though they returned to repentance.

They also are rejected who do not teach that remission of sins comes through faith but command us to merit grace through satisfactions of our own.｣
- Augsberg Confession, "On Repentance", June, 1530
thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-xii/

Please repent and accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ:
thechristianworldview.org/about-us-2/what-must-do-to-be-saved/

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