Fathers of Lutheran Orthodoxy: Das Grundbekenntnis der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche

"For the commemoration of the 350th jubilee of the Augsburg Confession, Professor Pieper in 1880 wrote a treatise entitled Das Grundbekenntnis der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (The Fundamental Confession of the Ev. Luth. Church). The essay was chiefly of a historical nature, relating the events that led up to the Diet of Augsburg and the composition of the statement there submitted by the Lutheran representatives in 1530 and since known as the Augsburg Confession. After this essay followed the text of the Augsburg Confession, to which Professor Pieper subjoined explanatory remarks, notable alike for their clearness and for their brevity. The book was long out of print, but in 1930, his last active year at the Seminary, Dr. Pieper had the almost unparalleled experience of republishing, after an interval of fifty years, the jubilee volume of 1880, now commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession. Thus it was the first and the last book to appear from the pen of Dr. Pieper." - Theodore Graebner, "Dr. Francis Pieper: A Biographical Sketch" (1931), 33. (Notes for Readers: This book is in German and was prepared from a scan.) This volume is part of a greater series entitled 'Fathers of Lutheran Orthodoxy.' The purpose of this series is to present great works of Lutheranism with a focus on the era of Lutheran Orthodoxy, although it also includes prominent works of the 19th and 20th centuries as well. For too long, the rich theology of Lutheranism's past has been limited to libraries' rare book rooms and cumbersome online PDFs. Therefore, this series endeavors to take public domain books of the Lutheran confession and to make them available for anyone who desires these works in the form of a physical print. This series is meant to include mostly original Latin works, but some works may be in German and even in English. The final goal is to create both accessibility and interest for studying and reading the works of Lutheran Orthodoxy, with the hope of creating renewed interest in scholars one day translating the rich theology of Lutheranism. For updates or questions, please reach out to the 'Fathers of Lutheran Orthodoxy' Facebook page.