The Smalcald Articles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Smalcald Articles, credited to Martin Luther, 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 Smalcald Articles, by Martin Luther, translated by F. Bente and W.H.T. Dau. Read by Jonathan Lange. A summary of Lutheran doctrine, written by Martin Luther in 1537 for a meeting of the Schmalkaldic League in preparation for an intended ecumenical Council of the Church. Luther's patron, Elector John Frederick of Saxony, asked him to prepare these articles for the League's meeting in 1537, held again in Schmalkalden. Though they were not adopted at the meeting of the Schmalkaldic League in 1537, they were widely used and were incorporated into the Book of Concord in 1580 as one of the Lutheran Confessions of the faith. (from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Smalcald Articles
• Author credits: Martin Luther
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:36:53

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Lutheran
• Martin Luther
• theology
• protestantism

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface — 10:18
2. 1 - Parts I & II — 32:11
3. 2 - Part III Articles i - iii — 30:07
4. 3 - Part III Articles iv - xv — 24:19

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