1. This is a reference to the Augsburg Confession, the Roman Catholic reply, called the “Confutation” and then the Defense, which is the Lutheran Apology, or Defense, of the Augsburg Confession

2. In Apology of the Augsburg Confession …Emperor had declared that the Confutation (Aug

3. The Augsburg Confession, which became a fundamental statement of Lutheran belief, assumed that reconciliation with the Catholics was still possible.

4. The Confutation goes through the Augsburg Confession to identify where the Roman church is in agreement with the Lutherans and where the Lutherans (from Rome’s perspective) get things wrong

5. The Augsburg Confession, also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Protestant Reformation.The Augsburg Confession was written in both German and Latin and was presented by a number of German rulers and free-cities at the Diet of