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The Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, in Latin Tractatus de Potestate et Primatu Papae, is the seventh credal document of Lutheranism collected in the Book of Concord. It was written by Philip Melanchthon and completed on February 17, 1537, during an assembly of Lutheran princes and theologians at Smalcald, which ratified and subscribed it as an appendix to the Augsburg Confession, since that earlier confession had included no specific article on the papal office. Lutherans considered it important to state their position on the papacy as they prepared for what became the Council of Trent, and the treatise has traditionally been bound together with Luther's own Smalcald Articles from the same assembly. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537) (Latin: Tractatus de Potestate et Primatu Papae), The Tractate for short, is the seventh Lutheran credal document of the Book of Concord.
Authored By: Philipp Melanchthon, Lead
Philip Melanchthon, its author, completed it on 17 February 1537 during the assembly of princes and theologians in Smalcald.
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