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An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History, and Theology with a Translation of the Smaller and Larger Catechisms of Zacharias Ursinus is unavailable, but you can change that!

This work examines key aspects of the development of the Heidelberg Catechism, including historical background, socio-political origins, purpose, authorship, sources, and theology. The book includes the first ever English translations of two major sources of the Heidelberg Catechism—Ursinus’ Smaller and Larger Catechisms—and a bibliography of research on the document since 1900. Students of the...

throughout Europe after his death.103 From the beginning to the end of his academic life, therefore, Ursinus employed catechisms in his doctrinal instruction of students. Second, Ursinus composed two catechisms of his own, at least one of which served as a major source for the HC. His Larger Catechism (Summa theologiae, or Catechesis maior), consisting of 323 questions and answers, was long thought to be composed before the SC as a preliminary draft of the HC. As Sturm has pointed out, however,
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