(1) As I compare my evolutionary account of Original Sin with the catechism 's exposition, I see a fairly good fit.(2) He was an extraordinary preacher, a devoted pastor, a catechist who wrote his own catechism , a visitor of the sick, a counsellor, and one deeply concerned about missions, ecumenism, church polity, and church discipline.(3) I can still remember learning my catechism in primary school, and being struck by one of the questions.(4) The triumph of God's suffering love, as revealed and embodied in Christ, is a theme that unifies the entire catechism .(5) Almost every morning for the past five years, she has been leading close to 500 children in a rousing, outdoor catechism about education.(6) I ended that address with a little catechism for Catholic writers: Question 1: What is the duty of the Catholic novelist?(7) Question 64 of the catechism states that the mission of the church is to extend mercy and forgiveness to ÔÇÿthe needyÔÇÖ in ways that point to Christ.(8) As expressed in the catechism in the Book of Common Prayer, the mission of the church is made explicit as the body of Christ.(9) Vos's approach is to go through the Questions and Answers of the catechism in sections, teasing out the theological and practical truths contained in the answers.(10) I am sure he does not want a textbook answer taken from a creed or a catechism .(11) Even in England, where the established Church was Anglican, Nonconformists and radicals organized a National Education League to ensure that under the 1870 Education Act the catechism would not be taught in rate-supported schools.(12) The catechism explains that Original Sin ensures that each human being, as a descendant of Adam and Eve, inherits ÔÇÿa human nature deprived of original holiness and justice.ÔÇÖ(13) All this was still done, though, under the aegis of clergy in the name of religion, and the central element in Pietist education remained the teaching of the Bible and of the catechism (a question-and-answer statement of Christian faith).(14) The Falloux law of 1850 confirmed this principle, and a ministerial regulation from 1851 called for the teaching of prayers, the recitation of the catechism , and history lessons covering the Old and New Testaments.(15) An ÔÇÿinclusiveÔÇÖ English translation of the catechism of the Catholic Church was delayed for months while the Vatican corrected the doctrinal problems raised by the new version.(16) The nature of Joe Christmas's proposed induction into the church, through the study of the Presbyterian catechism , is based on a ritual of question-and-answer in which the initiate offers himself up to the power of the church.
