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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
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, AN
EXPLANATION OF LUTHER'S SMALL CATECHISM ***
CONTENTS
href="#RULE4_1">LUTHER'S PREFACE
href="#RULE4_2">THE SMALL CATECHISM
href="#SMALLPART1">
PART I. - THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS
PART V.- THE SACRAMENT OF THE
ALTAR
PART I. - THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS
href="#CH4">CHAPTER IV. - THE LAWGIVER
href="#RULE4_5">THE FIRST TABLE OF THE LAW.
CHAPTER V. - THE FIRST
COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER VI. -
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
href="#CH7">CHAPTER VII. - THE THIRD
COMMANDMENT
href="#CH8">CHAPTER VIII. - THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER IX. -
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
href="#CH10">CHAPTER X. - THE SIXTH
COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XI. -
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
href="#CH12">CHAPTER XII. - THE EIGHTH
COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XIII.
- THE NINTH AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS
href="#CH14">CHAPTER XIV. - THE CONCLUSION OF THE
COMMANDMENTS
CHAPTER XV. - CREEDS OR
CONFESSIONS
CHAPTER XVI. -
THE FIRST ARTICLE
CHAPTER
XVII. - THE SECOND ARTICLE
href="#CH18">CHAPTER XVIII. - HIS LIFE
href="#CH19">CHAPTER XIX. - CHRIST'S WORK OF
REDEMPTION
CHAPTER XX. -
THE THIRD ARTICLE
href="#CH22">CHAPTER XXII. - THE FRUITS OF HIS
WORK
href="#CH24">CHAPTER XXIV. - THE LORD'S PRAYER
CHAPTER XXV. - THE FIRST
PETITION
CHAPTER XXVI. - THE
SECOND PETITION
CHAPTER
XXVII. - THE THIRD PETITION
href="#CH28">CHAPTER XXVIII. - THE FOURTH
PETITION
CHAPTER XXIX. - THE
FIFTH PETITION
CHAPTER XXX. -
THE SIXTH PETITION
CHAPTER
XXXI. - THE SEVENTH PETITION
href="#CH32">CHAPTER XXXII. - THE CONCLUSION
CHAPTER XXXIII. - THE MEANS OF
GRACE
CHAPTER XXXIV. - THE SACRAMENT OF
HOLY BAPTISM
CHAPTER XXXV.
- THE GIFTS OF BAPTISM
href="#CH36">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