Ursinus’s prefatory account of the nature and use of catechism, from the opening of his Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism.
- What is Catechism? About This Book
- I. What is Catechisation?
- II. What Is the Origin of Catechisation, and Has It Always Been Practiced in the Church?
- III. What Are the Parts or Principal Heads of the Doctrine of Catechism?
- IV. Why Is It Necessary to Introduce and Teach the Catechism in the Church?
- V. What Is the Design of the Catechism, And of the the Doctrine of the Church?
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These sections are drawn from the prolegomena of Ursinus’s larger work; the same material is held as Special Prolegomena in Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism.