Defense Topics
- Philip Melanchthon’s Greeting
- God
- Original Sin
- Christ
- Justification
- Of Love and Fulfilling of the Law
- The Church
- Baptism
- The Holy Supper
- Confession
- Repentance
- Confession and Satisfaction
- The Number and Use of the Sacraments
- Ecclesiastical Order
- Human Traditions in the Church
- Political Order
- Christ’s Return to Judgment
- Free Will
- The Cause of Sin
- Good Works
- The Invocation of the Saints
- Both Kinds in the Lord’s Supper
- The Marriage of Priests
- The Mass
- Monastic Vows
- Ecclesiastical Power
Article XVII: Of Christ’s Return to Judgment.
The Seventeenth Article the adversaries receive without exception, in which we confess that at the consummation of the world Christ shall appear, and shall raise up all the dead, and shall give to the godly eternal life and, eternal joys, but shall condemn the ungodly to be punished with the devil without end.