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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...

John Frederick of Saxony (1529–1595), and toward the more moderate expression of Lutheranism represented by Melanchthon. As governor of the Upper Palatinate (1556–1559) and duke of Palatinate-Simmern (1557–1559), Frederick introduced Otto Henry’s church order and other Melanchthonian reforms into these ancillary territories. He also become a supporter of Melanchthon’s so-called altered version of the Augsburg Confession (1540) and was one of the signatories to the Frankfurt Recess, a statement of
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