abstract:The Book of Concord or Concordia (1580) is the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, consisting of ten credal documents recognized as authoritative in Lutheranism since the 16th century. They are also known as the symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
In 1885, theConcordPublicLibraryin Massachusetts banned this book for its "coarselanguage" -critics deemed4 Mark Twain's use of common slang as demeaning and damaging.