Magdeburg Confession
The Magdeburg Confession (officially, the Confession, Instruction, and Admonition of the pastors and preachers of the Christian congregations of Magdeburg) was a
resistance to political tyranny, and argues that the "subordinate powers" in a state, faced with the situation where the "supreme power" is working to destroy true religion, may go further than non-cooperation with the supreme power and assist the faithful to resist.[2]
John Witte notes that Theodore Beza saw the Magdeburg Confession as an example of how to respond to political abuse of tyranny, and that it was a "major distillation of the most advanced Lutheran resistance theories of the day, which the Calvinist tradition absorbed."[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780521818421. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ISBN 9780521045438.
- ISBN 9781444360868. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
External links
- The Magdeburg Confession – a site maintained by the American pastor Matthew Trewhella – advertises a modern translation (from the original Latin) by Matthew Colvin, published via Amazon Createspace.