Tetrapolitan Confession

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The Tetrapolitan Confession is a 1530 Reformation-era Protestant statement of faith representing four South German cities, reflecting a more Reformed-leaning alternative to the Lutheran Augsburg Confession.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Protestant confession of faith
Reformation-era document
alternativeName Confessio Tetrapolitana NERFINISHED
author Martin Bucer NERFINISHED
cityGroupType imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire
coAuthor Wolfgang Capito NERFINISHED
commissionedBy Strasbourg city council NERFINISHED
comparedWith Lutheran Augsburg Confession NERFINISHED
confessionalFamily Reformed tradition
date 1530
doctrinalStance affirms authority of Scripture
affirms justification by faith
rejects corporeal presence of Christ in the Eucharist
emphasis moderation between Lutheran and Reformed positions
unity among evangelical cities
genre confessional document
historicalInfluence early step toward distinct Reformed confessional identity
historicalPeriod Protestant Reformation NERFINISHED
historicalStatus later largely superseded by more clearly Reformed confessions
influencedBy Huldrych Zwingli NERFINISHED
Swiss Reformation NERFINISHED
language German
Latin
laterReception less widely adopted than later Reformed confessions
namedAfter four cities
numberOfArticles 23
opposedTo certain Lutheran doctrines
placeOfPresentation Augsburg NERFINISHED
politicalContext Diet of Augsburg NERFINISHED
positionOnLordSupper symbolic or spiritual presence of Christ
purpose to present the faith of four South German cities at the Diet of Augsburg
region South Germany NERFINISHED
relatedTo Augsburg Confession NERFINISHED
relationType Reformed-leaning alternative to the Augsburg Confession
religiousTradition Protestantism
represents Constance NERFINISHED
Lindau NERFINISHED
Memmingen NERFINISHED
Strasbourg NERFINISHED
stanceOnChurchDiscipline strong emphasis on church discipline
stanceOnImages more iconoclastic than mainstream Lutheranism
subject Christian doctrine
church order
justification
sacraments
theologicalOrientation Reformed-leaning
Zwinglian-leaning
year 1530

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