AN EXPLANATION OF LUTHER'S SMALL CATECHISM

A Handbook for the Catechetical Class: an Outline and Analysis for
the Pastor's Oral Instruction, and a Summary for the Catechumens'
Study and Review at Home

BY JOSEPH STUMP, D.D.

1910







PREFACE


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