A Turn of Events – From Chaos to Comfort – A History of the Heidelberg Catechism (2)

More chaos was in the land in 1560. Two leading men had been cast out of the Protestant town of Heidelberg, Germany: the Lutheran Dr. Hesshuss and the Calvinist Klebitz. Their wrestling match during a church service was the last straw. But the views they had been fighting over—views about the Lords supper—were far from settled. The Reformed faith was still new to many people. People saw the truth of the new doctrines, but they did not fully understand them. Because the printing process was also...