[RnMomof7]

I think that was my Pastors point on this.

I do not own a copy but do read it on line .I was amazed how many of the men I heard discussing the fact that they own and read it .

Guess the Dutch know how to speak God to the heart as well as the mind

[Lexinom]

The Heidelberg Catechism is not Dutch in origin. The pious German elector Frederick III commissioned its writing to Zacharius Ursinus, a pupil of Luther's protegé Melancthon who possessed an exceptional talent for writing catechsims, and his court preacher Caspar Olevianus, who played an ancillary but valuable role in its formulation esp. with regard to the embedded Apostle's Creed.

Ursinus wrote the HC at the age of 26! From the original Latin, it was translated into Dutch, and later English.

I have heard that the Lutherans use it in some quarters.

And yes, generally speaking, the English are the theologians and the Dutch, the philosophers. The Continental Reformed tradition does tend more toward personal piety, whereas Calvinistic Baptists typically fill that role in the Anglo lineage. All of this is general of course.