Luther's Catechism: With an Explanation

Stump, Joseph

Published by The United Lutheran Publication House, 1935

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Hardcover without a dust jacket. Marked revised edition. (No ISBN stated) Private information of previous owner, blacked out on front endpaper. Reading copy, boards soiled, pages browning. From the title page: "Luther's Small Catechism: A Handbook for the Catechetical Class" by Joseph Stump, D.D., LLD., L.H.D. An outline and for the pastor's oral instruction, and a summary for the catechumen's study and review at home. Form the Preface: This book aims to present both 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, of course, adequately supply the parenetical side of the catechetical instruction or take the place of the living exposition by the pastor. But it can and should support his work, so that what he explains at one meeting may not be forgotten before the next meeting, but may be fixed in the minds of the catechumens by study at home.Wherever he deemed it necessary, the author has added a fuller explanation of the text of the catechism than that which Luther gives, and has supplemented its contents with such additional matter as the needs of our catechumens require. He does not agree with those catechetical writers who maintain that the pastor, in his catechization, must confine himself to an explanation of Luther's explanation. Such a principle would exclude from the catechetical class much which our catechumens should be taught. But all such additional matters are introduced under an appropriate head as an organic part of the whole explanation, thus preserving its unity. Religion.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Luther's Catechism: With an Explanation
• Publisher: The United Lutheran Publication House
• Publication Date: 1935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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