Tractatus de potestate et primatu Papae

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The Tractatus de potestate et primatu Papae (German: Of the power and authority of the Pope ) is an addendum to the Confessio Augustana , which was written by Philipp Melanchthon in 1537 and published anonymously in Strasbourg in 1540. The German version was published in Nuremberg in 1541. The Tractatus only became the official confession of Lutheranism in 1580 when it was included in the Book of Concords .

He was supposed to only discuss the question of papal power, which was excluded from the Confessio Augustana. This also happens in the first part, in which it is stated that the office of the Pope cannot invoke either scripture or tradition. The papacy is therefore referred to as "the kingdom of the Antichrist" and rejected. In the second part, the authority of the bishops is discussed, as has already been done in the Confessio Augustana and in the Apology of the Confessio Augustana (both Article 28).

literature

  • Wibke Jansen: We were born to talk to one another - Philipp Melanchthon and the Imperial Religion Talks of 1540/41 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-55215-5 , p. 61-69 .
  • Rudolf Oeschey: Questions of the church order in the Schmalkaldic articles and the Tractatus de potestate et primatu papae . Weicher, Leipzig 1937, DNB  361274343 .

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