The Geneva Catechism

In 1536 Calvin published a little "Confession of Faith." It is probably to this work that Beza refers as "a short formula of Christian doctrine"; to which, he adds, Calvin "appended a Catechism, not the one we now have, in the form of question and answer, but another much shorter, containing only the leading heads of religion." This other "Catechism" Calvin published in French in 1541, and then with slight differences in Latin in 1545, hoping that in that more international from it might also serve the cause of unity between the Churches. It is a translation of the Latin Catechism that is given here.