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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...

in Leo Jud’s shorter catechism and in Calvin’s Genevan Catechism, to name just a couple of representatives.58 Once again, whatever literary trail there might have been to the HC is beyond recovery. It is commonly alleged that the HC reveals its Calvinist ancestry most clearly in its treatment of the law in part 3 as the norm for a life of gratitude, the so-called third use of the law.59 Neuser did find this third use of the law also in Melanchthon but maintained that by placing
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