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Martin Luther’s Catechisms: Forming the Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reformation scholar Timothy Wengert has studied Luther’s catechisms for the light they shed on the maturing Reformation faith but also for the fascinating lens they afford into the social world of Wittenberg in those years: children, clergy, education and publishing, marriage customs, devotion and prayer, and celebration of the Lord’s Supper in this period, along with Luther’s own hearty faith,...

of Concord of 1580. Thus, they provide an important confessional voice for Luther’s view of the commandments. The Heart of the Matter Is the Heart Luther viewed all of God’s commandments in the light of the first commandment. It is “to illuminate and impart its splendor to all the others. In order that this may be constantly repeated and never forgotten, you must let these concluding words run through all the commandments, like the clasp or hoop of a wreath that binds the end to the beginning and
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