Editing Book of Concord (section)

==Context in Christendom==
The simple Latin title of the Book of Concord, ''Concordia'' ([[Latin]] for "an agreeing together"<ref>Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), 402.</ref>), is fitting for the character of its contents: Christian statements of faith setting forth what is believed, taught, and confessed by the confessors "with one heart and voice." This follows [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul's]] directive: "that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor.%201:10;&version=50; 1 Cor. 1:10]; [[New King James Version|NKJV]]). The [[creed]]s and confessions that constitute the ''Book of Concord'' are not the private writings of their various authors:{{clarify|date=July 2022}}<ref>F. Bente, ''Historical Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions'', St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House: 1921, pp. 3, 23, 24, 46, 247; Edmund Schlink, ''Theology of the Lutheran Confessions'', Paul F. Koehneke and Herbert J. A. Bouman, trans., (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1961; reprint, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2004), xvii–xviii.</ref>
{{blockquote|Inasmuch, however, as they are in complete agreement with Holy Scripture, and in this respect differ from all other particular symbols (i.e., [[Creed|denominational creeds and credal statements]]), the Lutheran confessions are truly ecumenical and catholic in character. They contain the truths believed universally by true Christians everywhere, explicitly by all consistent Christians, implicitly even by inconsistent and erring Christians. Christian truth, being one and the same the world over is none other than that which is found in the Lutheran confessions.{{dubious|date=July 2022}}<ref>Schlink, p. 3 words in  brackets added for clarity.</ref>}}