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A Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism’s Enduring Heritage is unavailable, but you can change that!

For 450 years, churches throughout the world have been using the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) to instruct God’s people in foundational Christian doctrine. When Elector Frederick III (1515–1576) commissioned the preparation of a manual for instructing the youth and guiding the pastors and teachers of his domain, he could not have imagined the profound effect it would have on future generations of...

Joel R. Beeke Today, as part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we commemorate the 450th anniversary of the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), a remarkable fruit of the sixteenth-century Reformation. Some say this catechism is the third most widely distributed book ever written, after the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress. Although the production
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