Introduction to the Small Catechism
Thinking Fellows
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4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Caleb, Scott, and Rod discuss the the context and introduction to Luther's Small Catechism. They examine the purpose, audience, and style of the catechism to explain why it remains a faithful tool to this day.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb and today I'm joined by my father, Dr. Scott Keith and by Rod Rosenblatt. |
| 0:25.9 | We are excited to have Rod back in the studio, excited to be back in a studio. It's been a while. |
| 0:33.2 | We've been recording in bedrooms, offices, living rooms, dining rooms, everything but our studio. |
| 0:42.6 | And we're back, at least for the next couple episodes. |
| 0:45.7 | And then we'll be back in my bedroom again after that. |
| 0:49.2 | But it's good to be back. |
| 0:51.4 | We've been, we started last week. |
| 0:53.5 | My dad and I introduced us into what we're going to do, |
| 0:57.0 | which is walk through the entire Book of Concord. |
| 1:00.4 | And we did a historical introduction to the book of Concord, |
| 1:05.0 | like a brief one. |
| 1:05.8 | Relese a rundown of what's in it. |
| 1:07.1 | Right. |
| 1:07.5 | Of what's in there. |
| 1:08.8 | Historical introduction might take me 16 more week yeah i know but i mean |
| 1:12.4 | we got into the outline we got into who wrote what documents we got into the years |
| 1:17.7 | great you know so we we gave i think a pretty broad overview of that since that first episode's come |
| 1:24.4 | out i've actually had a question of, is there a syllabus or an outline |
| 1:29.6 | that you guys can provide so that we can follow along? I will work on that. What do they |
| 1:37.2 | mean by that? Like, do you guys have a plan for what each episode will look like? The answer |
| 1:42.2 | to that question is not really, which is why I don't know exactly how far we'll get each time. |
| 1:47.1 | We have 40 minutes. |
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