We accept as our confessions all the symbols contained in the Book of Concord of the year 1580. The symbols of the Lutheran Church are not a rule of faith beyond, and supplementary to, Scripture, but a confession of the doctrines of Scripture over against those who deny these doctrines. Since the Christian Church cannot make doctrines, but can and should simply profess the doctrine revealed in Holy Scripture, the doctrinal decisions of the symbols are binding upon the conscience not because our Church has made them nor because they are the outcome of doctrinal controversies, but only because they are the doctrinal decisions of Holy Scripture itself. "A mighty Fortress is our God, a trusty Shield and Weapon"
The Confessions of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church as contained in The Book of Concord of 1580 and translated by F. Bente and W. H. T. Dau

The Three Ecumenical Creeds	The Smalcald Articles
The Augsburg Confession	Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope
The Defense of the Augsburg Confession	The Epitome of the Formula of Concord
The Large Catechism	The Thorough Declaration of the Formula of Concord
The Small Catechism

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