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The Heidelberg Catechism
AuthorUrsinus & Olevianus
First printed1563
ShelfConfessional standards
StatusIn rotation
Confessional standards

The Heidelberg Catechism

Ursinus & Olevianus1563

The warmest of the standards. Start here if you start anywhere.

Guilt, grace, gratitude — the shape of the Christian life in three movements. I hand this to friends who think confessional means cold.

"That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Saviour."

Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 1

Where I have worked through it