Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism, An: Sources, History, and Theology (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought)

Lyle D Bierma

ISBN 10: 0801031176 / ISBN 13: 9780801031175

Published by Baker Publishing Group, 2005

About this Item

Examines the historical and theological background of the Heidelberg Catechism and includes the first-ever English translations of two of its major sources--Ursinus's Smaller and Larger Catechisms.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism, An: Sources, History, and Theology (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought)
• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801031176
• ISBN 13: 9780801031175
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This work examines key aspects of the development of the Heidelberg Catechism, including historical background, socio-political origins, purpose, authorship, sources, and theology. The book includes the first ever English translations of two major sources of the Heidelberg Catechism--Ursinus's Smaller and Larger Catechisms--and a bibliography of research on the document since 1900.

Students of the Reformed tradition and the Protestant Reformation will value this resource.

About the Authors

Lyle D. Bierma (Ph.D., Duke University) is professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. Charles D. Gunnoe Jr. (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is associate professor of history at Aquinas College. Karin Y. Maag (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is director of the Meeter Center at Calvin College. Paul W. Fields is theological librarian and curator of the Meeter Center at Calvin University.

Karin Maag (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is the director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies in Grand Rapids. She has authored and edited three other volumes on the Reformation.