Luther's Catechisms: Introduction (A Walk Through the Catechism)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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This video is the first in a new series on the Small and Large Catechisms of Martin Luther which is part of our continued study of the Book of Concord.
You can find our series on the Augsburg Confession here: • Study of the Augsburg ...
And our series on the Formula of Concord here: • The Formula of Concord
Started watching your content during Covid. You have been an instrumental factor in our (very slow) move to Lutheranism. Taking the kids through the Small Catechism now. Thanks for all of your hard efforts!
Honey, wake up, a new Just & Sinner video on the Book of Concord just dropped 📖
Seriously, though: keep up the good work educating people online about Lutheranism, brother!
Just and Sinner will go down in Lutheran history hands down. Dr. Coppers videos helped me convert to Christinaity and the Evangleical Lutheran tradition. I've officially joined a Lutheran church body 2 months ago and I wouldn't have done it if it weren't for Dr. Jordans hard work. Many young people who have converted to Lutheranism in my circles jokingly call him our infaliable magisterium. Thank you Doctor Cooper, God bless.
Dr Cooper coming in clutch. I just visited the small Lutheran congregation near me and spoke to the pastor. He offered to give me catequesis personally because the congregation is very small (Lutheranism is not popular in my country), gave me a small tour around the place (small, but beautiful), he told me that i could back off at any moment, no compromise needed, and to top it all off he gave me two books, the cathechisms of luther expanded and explained as study matherial. Great first impression, I am looking forward to this journey!
(The Church is also part of the ILC, same as the LCMS and the AAlC if I am not mistaken)
Listening to this alongside the Mass in B Minor by J.S. Bach. Lutheranism is a gift to this world, assuredly.
Man your last 7 min. of this video is SO important! Our pastors actually have put catechesis training back into the hands of the parents. Of course they are tested in what they know before confirmation by the pastors. But that’s the way (as you pointed out) that Luther wanted it to be used at home.
Thanks so much for your videos on Lutheran beliefs. You were the first or second RUclipsr who drew my attention to the Lutheran church. Between you, Ready to Harvest, Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller , and the local LCMS posting their services online, I was finally able to choose a church. I am officially joining next Sunday.
Memorization is such a powerful tool. I still remember such things from back in early school. Learning truth properly, and having it ready at hand, is a great help in my walk
" Learning truth properly" I'm curious if you can cite credible "truths" from the bible? Can you cite some examples? thank you and good luck.
The downside is that even though I remember many verses, I usually can't cite where it is in the Bible. This is a handicap in reasoned discussion.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God who rose from the grave to save you and I. no one believes naturally so i’m not mad at your comment. i pray God gives you faith to believe! have a good day!
@@amirsmith9269 "Jesus Christ is the Son of God who rose from the grave to save you and I." I don't believe you. What evidence do you have? Good luck.
Fantastic, just watched this with my son. And, I ordered the Lutheran commentary on Luke for my Pastor for Christmas! Thanks for all your work.
As an inquirer of the Lutheran and Calvinistic theologies, so i can have the right framework for my faith in Christ, i greatly appreciate your content and this video especially! May the Holy Spirit guide me in all truth and may God continue to bless you, your family, your Parish and its members!
Thank you so much for uploading this. This is one of the few videos where I feel your passion is showing greatly.
Much appreciated, Dr. Cooper, and very warmly pastoral! The struggle with parents engaging in catechezing persists across denominational lines.
Another video from my favorite content creator!
Loved your comments about the need to continually study the faith.
Thank you. I am just starting to read about Lutheranism and wondering where to start so this was very helpful to me. I will look at the previous series you mentioned.
If it helps, some amazing resources that have blessed me are: podcast: issues etc, on the line, the gottesdienst crowd, a brief history of power. For RUclips, Bryan Wolfmueller and Jonathan Fisk, peace Lutheran in Sussex wi. If you plan to attend an lcms church, they are not all the same. I recommend the more liturgical church which changed my life. I believe you use the issue etc church finder on their website it’ll show generally those.
I'm thankful my congregation is going through the BOC as a group on Thursday nights.
I love the small catechism!!!
Thank you for posting this. I actually have a copy of Luther's small catechism.
Do you have a thought on the new annotated larger catechism by cph? You know, the controversial one? Thanks for all you have done here on your channel and books! I left my PCA church 6 weeks ago and started going to a great LCMS church and I will be accepted as a member tomorrow! 🙏
I come from a Protes’tant Lutheran background which grew out of a controversy in the Wisconsin Synod in 1924 ultimately after the Watertown thievery case. It’s a long story.
What was the cause of some of that controversy was the way in which the church wielded the scriptures focusing primarily on dogmatics and a strong legalistic approach to doctrine. And the spiritual state generally speaking was lacking within the Lutheran circles. There is a paper you can find online that really was the flame to this controversy titled “the Beitz paper”.
The historical exegetical perspective of the Bible was not the focus in the church. Getting the Lutheran laity into the word of God to read it the way it was written was not a thing. Just give them the doctrines in the catechism is all they need, was and still is much of the attitude today.
The Wauwatosa theologians sought to remedy that by focusing yes still on dogmatics, they are important for sure because if your dogmatics are bad then your exegesis will suffer too.
But they wanted to get back to the concept of sola scriptura where they would read the Bible through in Hebrew and Greek exegetically and the doctrines were pulled out from that study. Watching God at work through the history of the Bible, learning to watch the characters and how God and they respond to one another. This was a radical shift in the general way that Lutherans approached the Bible.
I guess the reason I bring this up is that when we open the catechism to teach young people the core Christian doctrines, we leave them with very little knowledge of what God historically on the pages of scripture has done to speak to them and us. Instead of taking them through the first three chapters of Genesis and showing them God at work in how He created all things to have fellowship with us, and then how that relationship was destroyed by Satan our enemy. But that grace alone is taught first right there in Genesis 3 with the words “where are you?” As God approaches our first parents hiding from Him. This warms our hearts and does not leave us with cold facts. When a person watches a movie, they watch the characters from beginning to end and how those interactions play out. If somebody were to just give us the key points and highlights of the movie so that we walk away with an understanding of what the movie is about, that really would be boring and we wouldn’t prefer that. So why treat God’s word that way? It is very evident that especially in our Lutheran circles. The interested number of young people is dwindling. Most people I reach in Lutheran circles have no interest in discussing what God has done for us in the Bible unless of course it is talking about what he did at the Cross. But what he did to get there and all it took, which is recorded on every page of the Bible, I haven’t found one person yet that wants to discuss that or wants to dig in and make it their business to understand who God is what he’s like and how he deals with mankind historically.
My point is this, we must use the catechism, but we also must get our young people to live in the scriptures or they will not KNOW God. Period.
This is wonderful, as an Anglican who is deeply interested in and considering Lutheranism, this is very helpful. I love your videos. I am reading the Book of Concord and the Large/Small Catechism - can you recommend a reading plan or a book or a guide to reading systematically through classic Lutheran theology. I mean I could just start reading all of Martin Luther, but...that seems like not the best approach. How can one find a guide to carefully, logically, historically working through the writings of the best of orthodox Lutheranism?
Unfortunately the S. California LCMS Church that I attend ( as a Calvinist) Augsburg, Concord & Catechism teaching is missing for those currant and/or new memberships…🤔
James 1:22 (ESV)
[22] But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
You once talked (many podcasts ago) about resources for parents teaching young children the faith. Would you ever consider discussing that again on another one of your episodes? We really like the Portals of Prayer Children’s Devotion and CPH’s Follow and Do series for teaching the small catechism. We also like the kids Christian band Rain for Roots. Do you have any other recommendations via other kinds of media than just books?
I’m not sure if you cover it because I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but is there a recommendation for a schedule for daily use?
An example of how the Law comforts is when I manage to not do something wrong that I would enjoy an the basis of conscious the Law comforts my reget at not making an enjoyable mistake by reassuring me that I did the right thing.
I must confess that I have that extra fatty, oversweet snack more often than I resist.
Do you have a playlist on the book of concord
Third!
Hey Dr Jordan,
Do you have any resources about Luther committing blasphemy?
Surely has to be some context behind it, but it’s really knocked me
@@Strengtharchive80 what do you mean?
@ ohh sorry, I meant the writing where he said Jesus was an adulterer.
I’d never heard of it before today
@@DrJordanBCooper I meant where Luther said that Jesus was an adulterer
There’s got to be some context
@@Strengtharchive80it’s all taken out of context. The evidence is hearsay at best & most likely false information perpetuated by misinterpretation.
@@iblameabelCatholic here, this sounds a lot when people try to discredit Luther when pointing to him connecting Jesus and Lucifer, as well as Luther's "opinions" on Revelations, Jude, James, and Hebrews and the Deuterocanon
1: "Lucifer" is a general term that means "bringer of light." You could say Jesus is A Lucifer, but its generally unhelpful; Mostly because of the connotations "Lucifer" has to Satan, but also there are better terms to use IMO.
2: Luther did not remove the deuterocanon. He marked them as apocrypha but left it in. His opinions on Revelations Jude Hebrews and James also changed to be more positive later in life from what ive read.
I disagree with Luther (I remain Catholic obviously), but Luther was a catechized Catholic Priest with doctorates in Biblical Studies and Theology before he got excommunicated. With this in mind, I find reason to steelman Luther's arguments rather than dismiss all of them outright
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At my MSLC, the children do memorize the catechism. The pastor only takes a few at a time so it won't be this massive group that doesn't learn it adequately.
The rituals were blotted out nailed to His cross and prayer means bowing to the will of God. You are extremely ignorant.
Is your god real? Is there any credible and verifiable evidence you can offer to prove he is? If you could that would be amazing. Thanks and good luck.
You wrote this comment.
@@krbohn101 Indeed I did. Can you answer my question? Good luck my friend.
The existence of God is necessary to give a account of reasoning and morality, within the atheistic world view you cannot justify reasoning since there is no epistemic principle that can justify any of those things I also recommend reading the case for Jesus by Brent pidte
@@SUDMONEYBAGS "The existence of God is necessary..." LOL. Your assertion is not credible evidence. Please provide verifiable evidence that your god is real and true. Good luck.
@@TboneWTFYou make a valid point so allow me to demonstrate that, if all humans are is just a bunch of evolved monikes and a bunch of atoms then in your world view how can we give a account of things like rationality,if rationality is subjective then my world view is perfectly acceptable