Augsburg Confession Variata

The Altered Augsburg Confession (Lat. Confessio Augustana Variata) is a later version of the Lutheran Augsburg Confession that includes substantial differences with regard to holy communion and the presence of Christ in bread and wine.

Philipp Melanchthon made several changes to the original Augsburg Confession in the years following its 1530 publication. Most of the changes were about the language of the confession. In 1540 and 1542, he rewrote some parts of the confession in order to reconcile it with the views of Calvinists. John Calvin himself did sign the 1540 version of the confession.

The most important difference between the Variata and the Augsburg Confession is in the theology of Real Presence. The Unaltered Augsburg Confession states:

"Concerning the Lord's Supper, they teach that the body and blood of Christ are truly present, and are distributed (communicated) to those that eat in the Lord's Supper. And they disapprove of those that teach otherwise."

Altered Augsburg Confession states:

"Concerning the Lord's Supper, they teach that 'with' bread and wine are truly exhibited the body and blood of Christ to those that eat in the Lord's Supper."

Lutheran churches often specify that they agree to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as opposed to the altered version.

External links

The Augsburg Confession (1530) in Latin with a parallel English translation and with notes on the differences in the 1540 edition; from Philip Schaff's Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Early Lutheran controversies

Date	Controversy	Resolution ^a	Issues / people / publications involved
1527–56	Antinomian	V VI	Johannes Agricola Andreas Poach Anton Otto Matthias Flacius Philippists
1533–53	Descent into Hell	IX	Descent into Hell Johannes Aepinus
1548–55	Adiaphoristic	X	Philip Melanchthon Matthias Flacius Philippists Gnesio-Lutherans
1549–66	Osiandrian	III	Andreas Osiander Johann Funck Francesco Stancaro Philip Melanchthon Matthias Flacius Andreas Musculus Victorinus Strigel
1551–62	Majoristic	VI	Georg Major Justus Menius Nicolaus von Amsdorf Nicolaus Gallus Philippists Gnesio-Lutherans
1555–60	Synergistic	II	Philip Melanchthon Johann Pfeffinger Victorinus Strigel Matthias Flacius Philippists Gnesio-Lutherans On the Bondage of the Will
1560–75	Flacian	I	Matthias Flacius Simon Musaeus Victorinus Strigel
1560–75	Crypto-Calvinist	VII	Philip Melanchthon Augsburg Confession Variata Albert Hardenberg Joachim Westphal Martin Chemnitz Maximilian Mörlin Philippists Sacramentarians Ubiquitarians Gnesio-Lutherans The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
1561–63	Predestination	XI	Predestination Johann Marbach Girolamo Zanchi

^a According to the Formula of Concord articles identified (I–XII).

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