Visitation Articles in the Entire Electorate of Saxony (german: Visitation-Artikel in gantzen Churkreiss Sachsen) are a Lutheran doctrinal statement written by

Aegidius Hunnius Aegidius Hunnius the Elder (21 December 1550 in Winnenden – 4 April 1603 in Wittenberg) was a Lutheran theologian of the Lutheran scholastic tradition and father of Nicolaus Hunnius. Life Hunnius went rapidly through the preparatory school ...

and other theologians against

Crypto-Calvinism Crypto-Calvinism is a pejorative term describing a segment of those members of the Lutheran Church in Germany who were accused of secretly subscribing to Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist in the decades immediately after the death of Martin Luth ...

on request of administrator Frederick William. They were written in 1592, and first published in German in 1593. Until 1836 all teachers and ministers in

Electoral Saxony The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. It was centered around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles ...

were required to subscribe also to the ''Visitation Articles'' as a doctrinal norm.

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The Visitation Articles in English
Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I, by

Philip Schaff Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 – October 20, 1893) was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and ecclesiastical historian, who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States. Biography Schaff was born ...

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Articles of Visitation
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Christian Cyclopedia ''Christian Cyclopedia'' (originally ''Lutheran Cyclopedia'') is a one-volume compendium of theological data, ranging from ancient figures to contemporary events. It is published by Concordia Publishing House as an update to the Concordia Cycloped ...

Lutheran texts Christian statements of faith Reformation in Germany 1593 in Christianity {{lutheran-stub