The Defense of the Augsburg Confession: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Defense of the Augsburg Confession, credited to Philip Melanchthon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Defense of the Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon, translated by F. Bente and W.H.T. Dau. Read by Jonathan Lange. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession was written by Philip Melanchthon during and after the 1530 Diet of Augsburg as a response to the Pontifical Confutation of the Augsburg Confession, Charles V's commissioned official Roman Catholic response to the Lutheran Augsburg Confession of June 25, 1530. It was intended to be a defense of the Augsburg Confession and a refutation of the Confutation. It was signed as a confession of faith by leading Lutheran magnates and clergy at the meeting of the Smalcald League in February, 1537, and subsequently included in the German [1580] and Latin [1584] Book of Concord. As the longest document in the Book of Concord, it offers the most detailed Lutheran response to the Roman Catholicism of that day as well as an extensive Lutheran exposition of the doctrine of Justification. (By Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Defense of the Augsburg Confession
• Author credits: Philip Melanchthon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 12:01:43

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• religion
• apologetics
• Lutheran
• Book of Concord

Track guide

1. 00-Preface: Greetings & God (AC 1) — 8:10
2. 01-I: Original Sin & Christ (AC 2 & 3) — 29:15
3. 02-II: Justification (AC 4.1) — 1:04:00
4. 03-III(1-61): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) — 39:02
5. 04-III(62-164): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) — 1:13:54
6. 05-III(165-222): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) — 47:18
7. 06-III(223-279): Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (AC 4.2) — 35:31
8. 07-IV: Church, Baptism, Holy Supper, & Confession (AC 7-11) — 48:04
9. 08-V: Repentance (AC 12.1) — 55:29
10. 09-VI: Repentance (AC 12.2) — 50:17
11. 10-VII: Number and Use of Sacraments & Ecclesiastical Order (AC 13-14) — 12:51
12. 11-VIII: Human Traditions, Political Order, Christ's Return, Free Will, Cause of Sin, & Good Works (AC 15-20) — 50:50
13. 12-IX: Invocation of the Saints (AC 21) — 26:23
14. 13-X: Both Kinds in the Sacrament (AC 22) — 10:06
15. 14-XI: Marriage of Priests (AC 23) — 39:43
16. 15-XII: The Mass (AC 24) — 1:11:13
17. 16-XIII: Monastic Vows (AC 27) — 42:34
18. 17-XIV: Ecclesiastical Power (AC 28) — 17:12

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.