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Title: An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
Author: Joseph Stump
Release Date: February, 2006 [EBook #9912] [This file was first posted on October 30, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English
Character set encoding: US-ASCII
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, AN EXPLANATION OF LUTHER'S SMALL CATECHISM ***
CONTENTS
PART I. - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
PART V.- THE SACRAMENT OF THE
ALTAR
PART I. - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
CHAPTER V. - THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER VI. - THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER VII. - THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER VIII. - THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER IX. - THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER X. - THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XI. - THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XII. - THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XIII. - THE NINTH AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS
CHAPTER XIV. - THE CONCLUSION OF THE COMMANDMENTS
CHAPTER XV. - CREEDS OR CONFESSIONS
CHAPTER XVI. - THE FIRST ARTICLE
CHAPTER XVII. - THE SECOND ARTICLE
CHAPTER XIX. - CHRIST'S WORK OF REDEMPTION
CHAPTER XX. - THE THIRD ARTICLE
CHAPTER XXII. - THE FRUITS OF HIS WORK
CHAPTER XXIV. - THE LORD'S PRAYER
CHAPTER XXV. - THE FIRST PETITION
CHAPTER XXVI. - THE SECOND PETITION
CHAPTER XXVII. - THE THIRD PETITION
CHAPTER XXVIII. - THE FOURTH PETITION
CHAPTER XXIX. - THE FIFTH PETITION
CHAPTER XXX. - THE SIXTH PETITION
CHAPTER XXXI. - THE SEVENTH PETITION
CHAPTER XXXII. - THE CONCLUSION
CHAPTER XXXIII. - THE MEANS OF GRACE
CHAPTER XXXIV. - THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY BAPTISM
CHAPTER XXXV. - THE GIFTS OF BAPTISM
CHAPTER XXXVI. - BAPTISM'S SIGNIFICANCE
CHAPTER XXXVII. - THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR
This book aims to present both an analysis of Luther's Small Catechism and a clear, concise, yet reasonably full explanation of its contents. It is an attempt, upon the basis of twenty years' experience and a study of the literature of the subject, to meet the peculiar wants of the catechetical class in our Lutheran Church in America. The object of the book is twofold: first, to furnish an outline of teaching which the pastor may use as a guide in his oral explanation and questioning; and secondly, to furnish a sufficiently complete summary by means of which the catechumens may review the lesson and fix its salient points in their minds. No text-book can,