On Catechizing

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Articles

1500’s

Bucer, Martin – ch. 9, ‘The First Law: Children must be catechized and educated for God’ in On the Reign of Christ tr. Satre & Pauck in Melanchthon & Bucer in The Library of Christian Classics, vol. 19 (London: SCM Press LTD, 1969), bk. 2, p. 280

Ursinus, Zachary – What a Catechism is & of Catechizing in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), pp. 2-4

Quote

1800’s

Archibald A. Alexander

Thoughts on Religious Experience (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1841), ch. 1, p. 13

“From this cause [native depravity] it proceeds, that many children, who have the opportunity of a good religious education, learn scarcely any thing of the most important truths of Christianity. If they are compelled to commit the Catechism to memory, they are wont to do this without ever thinking of the doctrines contained in the words which they recite; so that, when the attention is at any time awakened to the subject of religion, as a personal concern, they feel themselves to be completely ignorant of the system of divine truth taught in the Bible.

Yet even to these, the truths committed to memory are now of great utility. They are like a treasure which has been hidden, but is now discovered. Of two persons under conviction of sin, one of whom has had sound religious instruction, and the other none, the former will have an unspeakable advantage over the latter in many respects.”

Latin Articles

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – Ecclesiastical Politics (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663)

vol. 1, pt. 1, bk. 2, tract 3

1. ‘On Catechizing’, pp. 834-73

vol. 3, pt. 2

bk. 2, ‘Of Ministers & the Ecclesiastical Ministry’, Tract 4, Of Assisting Helpers to the Sacred Minister & Ministers

2. Of the Visitors of the Sick, Announcers [Proponentibus], Catechists, Readers, Precentors, Custodians, Porters or Messengers 514

bk.4, tract 3, Of Ecclesiastical Assistants

3. Of the Preacher, Disputator, Catechizer and Ecclesiastical Scholar 923

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