The Roman Catholic Bishop of Augsburg your quoted as saying of our Augustana, “It is the pure truth. We cannot deny it.”, was he Prince-Bishop Christoph von Stadion? That's a fascinating quote! Please would love to see the citation source.
Chaps, you can find it in a couple places: *Luther: A Biography of a Reformer* by Frederick Nohl (CPH, 2003), page 190. You will also find there the response of Prince William of Bavaria, a "supporter of the Roman Catholic cause," who asked Eck if the Confession could be refuted. He responded that it could be refuted from the church fathers, but not from Scripture. Prince William said, "Do you mean to say that the Lutherans are sitting inside the Scriptures and we outside of them?"
Nohl almost certainly used F. Bente's *Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church* as his scholarly source for both of these citations (which is also found at the beginning of the *Concordia Triglotta,* our 1921 three-language edition of the Book of Concord). See Bente, page 19, which lists these and other reactions to the Confession.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Augsburg your quoted as saying of our Augustana, “It is the pure truth. We cannot deny it.”, was he Prince-Bishop Christoph von Stadion? That's a fascinating quote! Please would love to see the citation source.
Chaps, you can find it in a couple places: *Luther: A Biography of a Reformer* by Frederick Nohl (CPH, 2003), page 190. You will also find there the response of Prince William of Bavaria, a "supporter of the Roman Catholic cause," who asked Eck if the Confession could be refuted. He responded that it could be refuted from the church fathers, but not from Scripture. Prince William said, "Do you mean to say that the Lutherans are sitting inside the Scriptures and we outside of them?"
Nohl almost certainly used F. Bente's *Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church* as his scholarly source for both of these citations (which is also found at the beginning of the *Concordia Triglotta,* our 1921 three-language edition of the Book of Concord). See Bente, page 19, which lists these and other reactions to the Confession.
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