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title: 'The First Question of the Westminster “Shorter Catechism”'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'B.B. Warfield'
date: 1908-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Catechism'
- 'Westminster Standards'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 16'
- 'Psalms 96'
- 'John 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/warfield-1908-the-first-question-of-the-westminster-shorter-catechism
---

# The First Question of the Westminster “Shorter Catechism”

Survey of the origins of the Westminster Shorter Catechism’s opening question—‘the chief end of man’—tracing it to Calvin, Leo Judae, and the Reformed catechetical tradition.

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