"The essays contained in this volume ... were read before a general convention of the church, held in Philadelphia, January 17-23, 1863, in honor of the thre hundredth anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism."--Pref.
The genius and mission of the German Reformed Church, in relation to the Lutheran Church and to those branches of the Reformed Church which are not German, by Theodore Appel. The organic structure of the Heidelberg Catechism, by T.G. Apple. The theological system in which the Heidelberg Catechism rests, the kind of religious life it cultivates, and the theory of practical religion which it assumes, by M. Kieffer. The Heidelberg Catechism in its relation to other confessions, by E.V. Gerhart. The Heidelberg Catechism in the Reformed Church of Holland and America, by Thomas De Witt. The authority of the Heidelberg Catechism, by G.B. Russel. The educational system of religion underlying the Heidelberg Catechism, by D. Gans. Catechetics and catechetical instruction, by B. Bausman. The fortunes of the Heidelberg Catechism in the United States, by J.H.A. Bomberger. The history of the theological seminary of the German Reformed Church in its relation to the Heidelberg Catechism, by B.C. Wolff.