When Lutheran princes presented their Augsburg Confession to the Emperor Charles V in 1530, he handed it to a panel of Catholic theologians, Johann Eck among them, for examination. Their answer, read on 3 August, goes article by article, approving some points, rejecting others, and defending clerical celibacy, the Mass and the traditional practices the reformers had attacked.
A key Reformation document, essential for understanding the Lutheran Apology that answered it. Download the free EPUB.