The Augsburg confession as a Lutheran doctrinal book

The article deals with the events of the Protestant Reformation which resulted in the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana), Lutheran Doctrinal Book, and analyzes the contents of the doctrinal document. It touches upon the issue of mutual relations of the Lutheranism and the Orthodoxy (particularly, the 16th century dialogue between the Reformation figures and the Constantinople Church). It considers closer relations of the Lutheran and the Roman Catholic Churches since they took shape in the second half of the 20th century, and puts the question of what significance the Augsburg Confession has in the present inter-Christian dialogue. The article analyzes the 1999 Augsburg Declaration signed between the two Churches where both parties reached “a consensus in the field of basic truths” on the justification doctrine.