/Refuted_Document_Confutatio_Pontifica/Title_Page: The Confutatio Pontificia: (August 3, 1530) (The Papal Response to The Augsburg Confession) By Johann Eck Amended by other theologians representing the Catholic States of the Holy Roman Empire In Reference to the Matters Presented To His Imperial Majesty by the Elector Of Saxony and Some Princes and States of the Holy Roman Empire, On the Subject and Concerning Causes Pertaining to the Christian Orthodox Faith, the Following Christian Reply Can Be Given Introduction. This confutation, or in Latin, the Confutatio Pontificia, was written by Roman Catholic theologians assigned by the papal legate to Emperor Charles V, as a theological rebuttal to the submission by the German princes of their Lutheran confession of faith, the Augsburg Confession. This Roman Catholic response was submitted on August 3, 1530, soon after the Lutheran Confession was made before the Emperor on June 25, 1530 at Augsburg. The Confutation is structured to address each of the articles found in the Augsburg Confession, asserting condemnation or agreement with the addressed article. With each they provide their defensive reasoning and position as to why they accepted (in part or whole) or rejected an article in the Lutheran confession of faith. This confutation then was itself addressed by the Lutherans, in the Apology (a defense) of the Augsburg Confession, which in its final form is a great deal longer than the confession itself. This defense of the Augsburg Confession was formulated by Philip Melanchthon and published in Latin in 1531, after suggested changes by Martin Luther. The Apology was later added, with the Augsburg Confession, and other confessional writings, to what were to become the official confessions of the Lutheran Church, known as t
he Book of Concord, published in 1580. David Emmons Confutatio Pontificia Contents: Title Page Part 1, Responses to Articles I - XXI of the Augsburg Confession Part 2, Responses to Articles XXII - XXVIII of the Augsburg Confession Conclusion Note to the reader: Disputation numbers listed were not added by the authors of this document, but by the reformers. Many of the disputes here were common across multiple articles of the Augsburg Confession. Therefore, in order to reply better, the Papal disputes were numbered and referenced in the Apology to the Augsburg Confession. Translated by J. C. Mattes and Julius Bodensieck; Edited by J. M. Reu. Published in: The Augsburg Confession, A Collection of Sources (Ft. Wayne, IN: Concordia Theological Seminary Press), pp. 349-383.