An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism: A Handbook for the Catechetical Class, Revised Edition (1935)
Citation
Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1935
Description
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, 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.
