postwar emigrants took this catechism—which is as ecumenical or irenic as it is international in character—with them wherever they went and taught it and lived it out in their new and unfamiliar environment. One of the most attractive and notable features of the HC is its opening words. In contrast with Lutheran catechisms, in which man is considered under the rubric of a baptized member of the church, and with Calvin’s catechism, which approaches man under the rubric of a creature made in the image