The Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification at Augsburg, declaring a consensus on the article over which the Reformation divided.
Tagged: Catholic Christian Lutheran
The Event
- Date
- 1999 (exact)
- Era
- Contemporary; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Augsburg
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Lutheran, Catholic
- Key texts
- Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
Connections
- Luther's Ninety-Five Theses; addressed_the_division_from
Doctrines in Play
Primary Sources
- Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999)
Secondary Sources
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0049; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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