The Large CatechismLuther, for pastors and preachers

Luther’s longer teaching on the Commandments, the Creed, the Lord’s Prayer and the sacraments, written for pastors and preachers to teach from.

Prefaces

1. First Preface
2. Second Preface (Short Preface)

The Catechism

1. Part One: The Ten Commandments
2. Part Two: The Creed
3. Part Three: The Lord’s Prayer
4. Part Four: Holy Baptism
5. Part Five: The Sacrament of the Altar

Text: The Book of Concord, translated by Henry Eyster Jacobs (Philadelphia, 1911), public domain. The wording is Jacobs’s, not the modern Concordia text, so it will differ from the version you may know, and its section numbers are not printed here.