or War and Peace in the Heidelberg Catechism

November 2013 27 (Q.A. 104). During the explanation of the sixth commandment the Catechism points to the right of the government to use the sword against evildoers “to prevent murder” (Q.A. 105). Finally, the Catechism opposes Gnesio-Lutheranism. This mainly concerns the denial of the Lutheran doctrine of the ubiquity of the hu- man nature of Christ. This doctrine in turn formed the basis for the Lutheran understanding of the Lord’s Supper. For this reason four questions deal with the...