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- Catalog of Testimonies
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- Introduction
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- 609
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Introduction
The Catalog of Testimonies was an appendix to the Book of Concord, included
with most printings of the German edition in 1580. Though not a formal part of the Lutheran Confessions, per se, the Catalog of Testimonies was widely used and provides additional documentation and evidence for the Lutheran position on the doctrine of the two natures in Christ. This became particularly important in Lutheranism’s debates with Calvinism over the possibility of the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ under the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper. Scripture passages and quotations from church fathers on the person of Christ are cited, with a special focus on the fact that because of the Incarnation the human nature of Christ shares in the qualities of divinity.
