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Hausvater: /HAUS-fah-ter/
noun (German)
1. Housefather.
2. Spiritually responsible head of household, including the housefather as assisted by the housemother.
>> Example: "As the Hausvater should teach it [Christian doctrine] to the entire family ..."
(Martin Luther, Small Catechism, 1529)

Lutheran Confessions

The Lutheran Confessions, as published in the Book of Concord (1580), consist of:

  • The Augsburg Confession (1530)
  • The Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531)
  • The Smalcald Articles (1538)
  • Luther's Small Catechism (1529)
  • Luther's Large Catechism (1529)
  • The Formula of Concord (1577)

Confessional Lutherans subscribe to these sixteenth-century apologetical writings because they are a correct exposition of the pure doctrine of the Word of God. For more information on the relationship between confessional subscription and the doctrine of sola scriptura ("Scripture alone"), visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

The following excepts from the Lutheran Confessions pertain especially to the Mission and Vision of The Hausvater Project.

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List of articles in category Lutheran Confessions
Title
Augsburg Confession XIV: Of Ecclesiastical Order
Augsburg Confession XVI: Of Civil Affairs
Augsburg Confession XXIII: Of the Marriage of Priests
Augsburg Confession XXVI: Of the Distinction of Meats
Augsburg Confession XXVIII: Of Ecclesiastical Power
Apology of the Augsburg Confession XVI: Of Political Order
Apology of the Augsburg Confession XXIII (XI): Of the Marriage of Priests
Apology of the Augsburg Confession XXVII (XIII): Of Monastic Vows
Smalcald Articles III, XI: Of the Marriage of Priests
Small Catechism, Preface

 

Source (Public Domain): Concordia Triglotta: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, ed. F. Bente (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921). The excerpt from AC XXVI has been taken from Tappert’s English rendering of the German text, which more fully identifies the distinctive roles of husbands and wives than the Latin text that is the basis for Bente’s translation; moreover, it was the German, rather than the simultaneously produced Latin version, that was read before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. See The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, ed. Theodore G. Tappert (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1959), 65. The full text of the Book of Concord is available at www.bookofconcord.org and much of it also is available at Project Wittenberg.