Introduction

Gerhard Bente was a second generation Missouri Synod theologian and historian, born in Wimmer, Hannover, Germany. He was an 1881 graduate of Concordia Seminary in St.Louis. Bente pastored at Humberstone and Jordan, Ontario. He was President of the Canadian District of the Missouri Synod (now the Lutheran Church -- Canada), Professor at Concordia, St. Louis, Editor of the faculty journal, Lehre und Wehre , co-editor of the Triglotta , and author of many other works. Gerhard Bente died at Redwood City, California and was buried in St. Louis.

Concordia Triglotta (1921)

Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church, (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921)

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, by F. Bente.

III. The Augsberg Confession (Part 2)

8. Ecumentical /Symbols; 9. The Apostles' Creed; 10. The Apostles' Creed and Early Christian Writers; 11. Tertullian and Cyprian on Apostles' Creed 12. Variations of the Apostles' Creed; 13. Present Form of Creed and Its Contents; 14. The Nicene Creed; 15. The Niceno - Constantinoplitan Creed; 16. The Athanasian Creed; 17. Luther on Ecumenical Creeds.

III.The Augsburg Confession (Part 3)

18. Diet Proclaimed by Emperor; 19. Apology Original Plan of Lutherans; 20. Transformation of Apology into Confessions Due to Eck's Slanders; 21. Marburg, Schwabach and Torgau Articles; 22. Luther's Spokesmen at Augsburg; 23. Drafting the Confession; 24. Public Reading of the Confession; 25. Luther's Mild Criticism; 26. Luther Praising Confession and Confessors; 27. Manuscripts and Editions of Augustana; 28. Signatures of Augsburg Confession; 29. Tributes to Confession of Augsburg.