Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope

The Tractatus de potestate et primatu Papae (English: from the force and authority of the Pope ) is a supplement to the Augsburg Confession, written by Philipp Melanchthon in 1537 and published in Strasbourg in 1540 anonymously. The German version was moved to Nuremberg in 1541. The Tractatus was only in 1580 by its inclusion in the Book of Concord as the official confession of Lutheranism.

He was supposed to discuss exclusively the which are excluded in the Confessio Augustana question of papal power. This also happens in the first part, is set out in the that the office of the Pope can rely neither on Scripture nor tradition. The papacy is therefore referred to and rejected as " the kingdom of the Antichrist ." In the second part the powers of the bishops will discuss how this is done already in the Augsburg Confession and in the Apology of the Augsburg Confession (Articles 28).

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