Torgau article

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In March 1530, the Torgau articles were brought to a conclusion in the old superintendent in Torgau .
Plaque

A Torgau article is generally used to describe a series of theological reports on church ceremonies that were prepared by Philipp Melanchthon , Martin Luther , Justus Jonas the Elder and Johannes Bugenhagen . They were only discovered and published in the Weimar archive in the 19th century by Karl Eduard Förstemann . However, its exact text stock is controversial in research.

After Emperor Charles V had invited to a diet to resolve religious disputes at the beginning of 1530 , Elector Johann von Sachsen commissioned the four Wittenberg theologians on March 14, 1530 to write a theological explanation of the reformatory changes. On March 27, Melanchthon alone brought the designs to Torgau , which was then the royal seat of the elector. There the texts were further edited with the electoral councils. The consultations took place in the Alte Superintendentur in Wintergrüne 2, on the facade of which a plaque commemorates this event since 2012.

The delegation from Electoral Saxony took the Torgau articles as well as the theologically more fundamental arguments from Schwabach to the Reichstag in Augsburg , where they were to be presented to the emperor. However, when it became clear in the preliminary negotiations that a fundamentally arguing confession was necessary, Melanchthon wrote the Confessio Augustana , for the first part mainly based on the Schwabach articles. The Torgau articles, the exact text of which can no longer be clearly reconstructed, found their way into the second part of the CA (Articles 22 to 28).

Text output

  • Karl Eduard Förstemann (Ed.): Document book on the history of the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1530 . Vol. 1. Bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1833, pp. 66–108.
  • The confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1930 ( 13 2010) ISBN 978-3-525-52101-4 pp. 83b-110.
  • Friedrich Ulmer (Ed.): The Schwabacher, Marburg and Torgauer articles in their wording adapted to the language of the present. Lutheran Aid Organization, Erlangen 1930.

literature

  • Gunther Wenz : Theology of the confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. A historical and systematic introduction to the Concord Book . Volume 1. de Gruyter, Berlin 1996. pp. 419-429.
  • Rolf Decot : Torgau Article . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 10 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, Sp. 114 .