Luther's Small Catechism

Concordia Publishing House

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About this app

Reference the official 1986 version of Luther’s Small Catechism wherever you are. This beautifully designed app makes reading and navigating the Small Catechism easy and convenient.

• Multiple translations
• Optimized for readability
• Designed for Android 4.0.3+
• Share via Twitter, Facebook, and email
• Offline viewing

About Luther’s Small Catechism
Brief, clear summaries of God’s Word allow individuals and families alike to use Luther’s Small Catechism as a powerful tool and prayer book. Though the catechism was written by Martin Luther in 1529, its question and answer format provides Christians with a timeless and easy-to-use guidebook that is applicable to all the various callings we have in life.

The Small Catechism explores the Six Chief Parts of Christian Doctrine: the Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, Confession, and the Sacrament of the Altar. It also includes daily prayers, a table of duties for Christians, and a guide for Christians to use as they prepare to receive Holy Communion.

Ratings and reviews

The free version is good, in that you get the whole LCMS translation of the Small Catechism right there on your phone, for free. If you pay for the explanation stuff, you get that, too... sometimes. When I upgraded my phone, I couldn't access the explanation. It used to work on my old phone, but no combination of things CPH told me to do worked. The app acts as if restoring works, but it won't display. They said to tell Google. I have yet to find a way to even do that. Just get the book.

I recently had a problem when I accidentally uninstalled it and when I re-installed, the explanation wasn't there. I contacted support who were very helpful in restoring the explanation... thanks Jordan! Very impressed with app and the prompt support, would definitely recommend.

Luther's Small Catechism from Concordia Publishing House is a basic text for almost all LCMS Lutherans, the explanations provided in that premium content has been studied by confirmation students for generations and having Luther's Catechism and those explanations _DOWNLOADED_ on your phone and available for review and study is a valuable addition to any Christian's mobile device. That said... I emphasized Downloaded for a reason. On the free tier at least, it doesn't download Luther's small catechism translated into common English to your phone so you must access the internet every single time. I don't know if it downloads the explanations as I didn't purchase that. This means that as long as you have access to the Internet, which people take for granted but isn't always available especially when traveling, this is a serviceable option. If they downloaded all content under all circumstances I would give it 5 stars. Since they don't, if all you want is Luther's Small Catechism, and can live without the explanations, I recommend going to project Gutenberg and downloading the epub or mobi of the Catechism and load it on either the Kindle app or your epub reader of choice.

What’s new

Various bug fixes and improvements.