The Smalcald Articles
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Oct 12, 2026
Peter C. BenderHOST
What else? August.
Gary V. GehlbachPANELIST
The Schmalkald Articles.
Peter C. BenderHOST
Ah, yeah.
Peter C. BenderHOST
I love the way he said that, like a good German, auf Deutsch, Schmalkald.
Peter C. BenderHOST
So the Schmalkald Articles, and they were written by Luther in 1536.
Peter C. BenderHOST
Good.
Peter C. BenderHOST
What else? Uh, Verla.
Peter C. BenderHOST
[laughing] Okay? What else? Now, I could put in here, there's also something called the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope.
Chris RoseboroughHOST
The nationalist church would now be bound to teach that God does not deal with us humans only through word and sacrament, but through the so-called science of race division and antisemitism.
Chris RoseboroughHOST
Citing the words of the Smalcald Articles allows the Bethel Confession to then demonstrate the crux of the problem with the movement of nationalist socialism, which is being infiltrated into the church.
Chris RoseboroughHOST
The National Socialist movement is founded on the rhetoric of struggle as telegraphed by the title of Hitler's book, Mein Kampf.
Chris RoseboroughHOST
Of course, my struggle.
Scott KeithHOST
And so within the Lutheran Confessions especially, you, you very often will see the positive statement, "This is what we believe, teach, and confess," and the negative statement, "This is what we condemn." It's put together into several confessions.
Scott KeithHOST
It's made up of the Augsburg Confession, the apology or defense of the Augsburg Confession, Martin Luther's Small and Large Catechism, Martin Luther's one sort of confession that was written as a confession and not as a, a teaching document, a catechism, called the Smalcald Articles, named for the town where the conference was held, uh, when the confession was presented, Philip Melanchthon's articles on the power and primacy of the pope, and then something called the Formula of Concord, which just means a formula of unity, which was a confession that was meant to bring sort of Lutheran segments together that by later in the 1500s had started to disagree with each other.
Scott KeithHOST
And that's broken into g- two smaller documents called the Solid Declaration and the Epitome.
Scott KeithHOST
At the beginning of any Book of Concord, though, you're going to see the three ecumenical creeds, the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.
Scott KeithHOST
And so within the Lutheran Confessions especially, you, you very often will see the positive statement, "This is what we believe, teach, and confess," and the negative statement, "This is what we condemn." It's put together into several confessions.
Scott KeithHOST
It's made up of the Augsburg Confession, the Apology or Defense of the Augsburg Confession, Martin Luther's Small and Large Catechism, Martin Luther's one sort of confession that was written as a confession and not as a, a teaching document, a catechism, called the Smalcald Articles, named for the town where the conference was held, uh, when the confession was presented, Philip Melanchthon's articles on the power and primacy of the pope, and then something called the Formula of Concord, which just means a formula of unity, which was a confession that was meant to bring sort of Lutheran segments together that by later in the 1500s had started to disagree with each other.
Scott KeithHOST
And that's broken into g- two smaller documents called the Solid Declaration and the Epitome.
Scott KeithHOST
At the beginning of any Book of Concord, though, you're going to see the three ecumenical creeds, the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.
Scott KeithHOST
And so within the Lutheran Confessions especially, you, you very often will see the positive statement, "This is what we believe, teach, and confess," and the negative statement, "This is what we condemn." It's put together into several confessions.
Scott KeithHOST
It's made up of the Augsburg Confession, the Apology or Defense of the Augsburg Confession, Martin Luther's Small and Large Catechism, Martin Luther's one sort of confession that was written as a confession and not as a, a teaching document, a catechism, called the Smalcald Articles, named for the town where the conference was held, uh, when the confession was presented, Philip Melanchthon's articles on the power and primacy of the pope, and then something called the Formula of Concord, which just means a formula of unity, which was a confession that was meant to bring sort of Lutheran segments together that by later in the 1500s had started to disagree with each other.
Scott KeithHOST
And that's broken into g- two smaller documents called the Solid Declaration and the Epitome.
Scott KeithHOST
At the beginning of any Book of Concord, though, you're going to see the three ecumenical creeds, the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.