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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkætəˌkɪzəm/</a>; from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of <a href="/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine">doctrine</a> and serves as a learning introduction to the <a href="/wiki/Sacraments" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacraments">Sacraments</a> traditionally used in <a href="/wiki/Catechesis" title="Catechesis">catechesis</a>, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Catechisms are doctrinal manuals – often in the form of questions followed by answers to be memorised – a format <a href="#Secular_catechisms">that has been used</a> in non-religious or secular contexts as well. According to Norman DeWitt, the early Christians appropriated this practice from the <a href="/wiki/Epicureans" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicureans">Epicureans</a>, a school whose founder <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a> had instructed to keep summaries of the teachings for easy learning.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> The term <a href="/wiki/Catechumen" class="mw-redirect" title="Catechumen">catechumen</a> refers to the designated recipient of the catechetical work or instruction. In the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, catechumens are those who are preparing to receive the <a href="/wiki/Sacraments_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Sacraments of the Catholic Church">Sacrament</a> of <a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">Baptism</a>. Traditionally, they would be placed separately during <a href="/wiki/Holy_Mass" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Mass">Holy Mass</a> from those who had been <a href="/wiki/Baptized" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptized">baptized</a>, and would be dismissed from the liturgical assembly before the Profession of Faith (<a href="/wiki/Nicene_Creed" title="Nicene Creed">Nicene Creed</a>) and <a href="/wiki/General_Intercessions" title="General Intercessions">General Intercessions</a> (Prayers of the Faithful).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg/220px-Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg/330px-Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg/440px-Codex_Manesse_Schulmeister_von_Esslingen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="952" data-file-height="1346"></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Codex_Manesse" title="Codex Manesse">Codex Manesse</a>, fol. 292v, "The Schoolmaster of Esslingen" (Der Schulmeister von Eßlingen)</figcaption></figure> Catechisms are characteristic of <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a> but are also present in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a>.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> In 1973, <a href="/wiki/The_Common_Catechism" title="The Common Catechism">The Common Catechism</a>, the first joint catechism of Catholics and Protestants, was published by theologians of the major Western Christian traditions, as a result of extensive <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecumenical">ecumenical</a> dialogue.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Format">1 Format</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Catholic_catechisms">2 Catholic catechisms</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#The_Master_Catechism">2.1 The Master Catechism</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Notable_catechisms_in_history">2.2 Notable catechisms in history</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Other_historical_catechisms">2.3 Other historical catechisms</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="#Ignorantia_sacerdotum">2.3.1 Ignorantia sacerdotum</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#The_Catechetical_Instructions_of_St._Thomas_Aquinas">2.3.2 The Catechetical Instructions of St. Thomas Aquinas</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#Catechism_of_Christian_Doctrine_(or_%22Penny_Catechism%22)">2.3.3 Catechism of Christian Doctrine (or "Penny Catechism")</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Catechism_for_Filipino_Catholics">2.3.4 Catechism for Filipino Catholics</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Enchiridion_symbolorum,_definitionum_et_declarationum_de_rebus_fidei_et_morum">2.3.5 Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Tradivox_catechism_series">2.4 Tradivox catechism series</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#Contents">2.4.1 Contents</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Orthodox_catechisms">3 Orthodox catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Protestant_catechisms">4 Protestant catechisms</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Anglican_catechisms">4.1 Anglican catechisms</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16"><a href="#United_Kingdom">4.1.1 United Kingdom</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17"><a href="#United_States">4.1.2 United States</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Baptist_catechisms">4.2 Baptist catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Lutheran_catechisms">4.3 Lutheran catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Methodist_catechisms">4.4 Methodist catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Pentecostal_catechisms">4.5 Pentecostal catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Quaker_catechisms">4.6 Quaker catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Reformed_catechisms">4.7 Reformed catechisms</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-24"><a href="#Genevan_Catechism">4.7.1 Genevan Catechism</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-25"><a href="#Heidelberg_Catechism">4.7.2 Heidelberg Catechism</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-26"><a href="#Westminster_Catechisms">4.7.3 Westminster Catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-27"><a href="#Other_Reformed_catechisms">4.7.4 Other Reformed catechisms</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28"><a href="#Non-Christian_catechisms">5 Non-Christian catechisms</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29"><a href="#Abrahamic_religions">5.1 Abrahamic religions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="#Indian_religions">5.2 Indian religions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="#Other_religious_traditions">5.3 Other religious traditions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32"><a href="#Secular_catechisms">6 Secular catechisms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-33"><a href="#See_also">7 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-34"><a href="#References">8 References</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Citations">8.1 Citations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-36"><a href="#Sources">8.2 Sources</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#Notes">8.3 Notes</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38"><a href="#External_links">9 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Format">Format</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Format" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> Before the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>, Christian <a href="/wiki/Catechesis" title="Catechesis">catechesis</a> took the form of instruction in and memorization of the <a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">Apostles' Creed</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a>, and basic knowledge of the <a href="/wiki/Sacraments" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacraments">sacraments</a>. However, there were also more comprehensive documents that outlined the Christian faith, such as the Catechetical Lectures of St. <a href="/wiki/Cyril_of_Jerusalem" title="Cyril of Jerusalem">Cyril of Jerusalem</a>,<a href="#cite_note-newadvent.org-5">[5]</a> "The Morals"<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> of St. <a href="/wiki/Basil_of_Caesarea" title="Basil of Caesarea">Basil of Caesarea</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Enchiridion_on_Faith,_Hope_and_Love" title="Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love">Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love</a> by St. <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a>. The earliest known catechism is the <a href="/wiki/Didache" title="Didache">Didache</a>, which was written between 60 and 85 AD.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The word "catechism" for a manual for this instruction appeared in the <a href="/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages" title="Late Middle Ages">Late Middle Ages</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> The use of a question and answer format was popularized[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> in his 1529 <a href="/wiki/Luther%27s_Small_Catechism" title="Luther's Small Catechism">Small Catechism</a>. He wanted the catechumen to understand what he was learning, so the Decalogue, Lord's Prayer, and Apostles' Creed were broken up into small sections, with the question "What does this mean?" following each portion.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> The format calls upon two parties to participate, a master and a student (traditionally termed a "scholar"), or a parent and a child. The <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Shorter_Catechism" title="Westminster Shorter Catechism">Westminster Shorter Catechism</a> (1647) is an example: <blockquote>Q. What is the chief end of man? A. To glorify God and enjoy Him forever! Q. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him? A. The word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments is <a href="/wiki/Sola_scriptura" title="Sola scriptura">the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him</a>.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></blockquote> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Catholic_catechisms">Catholic catechisms</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Catholic catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg/220px-Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="127" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="461"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 127px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg/220px-Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="127" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg/330px-Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg/440px-Catechism-Madras_Presidency_Village.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>A catechism lesson in a <a href="/wiki/Madras_Presidency" title="Madras Presidency">Madras Presidency</a> village (India), 1939</figcaption></figure><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Catechism of the Catholic Church">Catechism of the Catholic Church</a></div> There are thousands of catechisms in the Catholic tradition, with texts already appearing in print for the instruction of lay people by the early medieval period. Only two "universal" catechisms have been promulgated by the popes of the Catholic Church: The Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566), written chiefly for priests, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), written chiefly for bishops. These remain among the most widespread among Catholics today, although the latter has been met with some controversy since its first appearance.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> For Catholics, all the canonical books of the Bible (including the <a href="/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books" title="Deuterocanonical books">Deuterocanonical books</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Sacred_tradition" title="Sacred tradition">tradition of the Church</a> and the interpretation of these by the living <a href="/wiki/Magisterium" title="Magisterium">Magisterium</a> (which may be accomplished in a catechism or other mode of teaching) constitute the entire means whereby God's revelation to mankind may be accessed. Catholics believe that sacred scripture and sacred tradition preserved and interpreted by the Magisterium are both necessary for attaining to the fullest understanding of all of God's revelation. The term catechist is most frequently used in <a href="/wiki/Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism">Catholicism</a>, often to describe a lay catechist, a layperson with catechetical training who engages in such teaching and evangelization. This can be in both parish church and <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">mission</a> contexts. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Master_Catechism">The Master Catechism</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Master Catechism" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The Master Catechism is a digital search engine developed by Tradivox under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Athanasius_Schneider" title="Athanasius Schneider">Bishop Athanasius Schneider</a>, which uses AI technology to answer catechism questions by drawing upon dozens of Catholic catechisms from across the last millennium. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_catechisms_in_history">Notable catechisms in history</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notable catechisms in history" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="250">Name</th> <th width="90">First published</th> <th width="150">Author</th> <th class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">L'ABC des simples gens </td> <td align="center">c.1401 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Gerson" title="Jean Gerson">Jean Gerson</a> </td> <td>"ABC for simple folk": the common prayers, creed, commandments, etc. to be memorized as part of catechesis </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Explanation of the Apostles' Creed </td> <td align="center">1530 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Erasmus" title="Erasmus">Erasmus</a> </td> <td>A Catholic response to Luther's catechisms of the previous year. English version 1533 <a href="/wiki/A_Playne_and_Godly_Exposition_or_Declaration_of_the_Commune_Crede" title="A Playne and Godly Exposition or Declaration of the Commune Crede">A Playne and Godly Exposition or Declaration of the Commune Crede</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Summa Doctrinae Christianae </td> <td align="center">1555 </td> <td rowspan="3" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Canisius" title="Peter Canisius">Peter Canisius</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">For clergy, children, and adolescents respectively </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Catechismus minimus </td> <td align="center">1556 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Parvus Catechismus catholicorum </td> <td align="center">1559 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">An Honest Godlye Instruction </td> <td align="center">1556 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Bonner" title="Edmund Bonner">Edmund Bonner</a> </td> <td>Reprinted in 2020 within Tradivox, Vol. I. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catechism" title="Roman Catechism">The Roman Catechism</a> (or the <a href="/wiki/Catechism_of_the_Council_of_Trent" class="mw-redirect" title="Catechism of the Council of Trent">Catechism of the Council of Trent</a>) </td> <td align="center">1566 </td> <td align="center">Various<a href="#cite_note-13">[note 1]</a> </td> <td>Commissioned by the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Trent" title="Council of Trent">Council of Trent</a> and was not intended for common use by the laity, but as a general use reference book for priests and bishops. There are two English translations. One by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/trent/tindex.htm">Theodore Buckley</a> and the other by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_catechism_of_the_Council_of_Trent" class="extiw" title="s:The catechism of the Council of Trent">Rev. J Donovan</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">A Catechisme of Christian Doctrine </td> <td align="center">1567 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Vaux" title="Laurence Vaux">Laurence Vaux</a> </td> <td>First published in <a href="/wiki/Leuven" title="Leuven">Louvain</a>, six further editions in rapid succession, emanating from <a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge" title="Liège">Liège</a>, testified to its widespread popularity and effectiveness. The 1583 Liège issue was reprinted with biographical introduction for the Chetham Society by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Graves_Law" title="Thomas Graves Law">Thomas Graves Law</a> in 1885.<a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a> This edition contains also Vaux's paper "The Use and Meaning of Ceremonies," and a few further pages of instruction added by the Liège publisher. The catechism is practically formed on the same lines as its successor of today, explaining in sequence the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary (excluding the second half beginning at "Holy Mary…"), the Ten Commandments (at considerable length), the Sacraments and the offices of Christian justice. The treatise on the ceremonies discusses the use of holy water, candles, incense, vestments and so forth. According to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, Laurence Vaux's Catechism was the first Reformation era Catholic Catechism in English when it was published in 1567. Reprints followed in 1574, 1583, 1599 and 1605.<a href="#cite_note-15">[14]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">The Christian Doctrine </td> <td align="center">1573 </td> <td align="center">Fr. Diego de Ledesma </td> <td>Reprinted in 2020 within Tradivox, Vol. I. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Catecismo de Ripalda </td> <td align="center">1591 </td> <td align="center">Jerónimo de Ripalda </td> <td>Doctrina cristiana, con una exposición breve de Jerónimo de Ripalda, SJ.<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Astete </td> <td align="center">1599 </td> <td align="center">Gaspar Astete </td> <td>Doctrina cristiana y documentos de crianza.<a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">A Shorte Catechisme </td> <td align="center">1614 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine" title="Robert Bellarmine">Robert Bellarmine</a> </td> <td>Reprinted in 2020 within Tradivox, Vol. II. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Douay Catechism </td> <td align="center">1649 </td> <td align="center">Rev Henry Tuberville, DD </td> <td>Written at the <a href="/wiki/English_College,_Douai" title="English College, Douai">English College of Douay</a> in Flanders & is based on the Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent. It was similarly written with the purpose of teaching Christian doctrine during the tumultuous <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation" title="English Reformation">English Reformation</a>. It is a testament to Rev. Tuberville and his colleagues at Douay that it remains one of the clearest and most direct compendiums of Catholic teaching in the English language.<a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Luz de verdades católicas </td> <td align="center">1691 </td> <td align="center">Juan Martínez de la Parra </td> <td>Luz de verdades catholicas y explicación de la doctrina christiana.<a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Einheitskatechismus </td> <td align="center">1777 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Maria_Theresa" title="Maria Theresa">Maria Theresa</a> </td> <td>Unified catechism for Habsburg monarchy. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Catéchisme impérial </td> <td align="center">1806 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> </td> <td>Unified catechism for France under Napoleon rule, the catechism emphasizes loyalty to the emperor.<a href="#cite_note-20">[19]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">El catecismo de la doctrina cristiana explicado </td> <td align="center">1837 </td> <td align="center">Santiago José García Mazo </td> <td>El catecismo de la doctrina cristiana explicado, ó, Explicaciones del Astete que convienen también al Ripalda.<a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Complete_Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Religion" class="extiw" title="s:A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion">A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion</a> </td> <td align="center">1847 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Deharbe" title="Joseph Deharbe">Joseph Deharbe</a> </td> <td>A popular German catechism, written by the Theologian Joseph Deharbe, which "possesses theological correctness, brevity of sentences, preciseness of expression, clearness, and good order... It is to Deharbe's credit that in his catechism he preserved catechetical tradition, but abandoned the Canisian division, arranging the text-matter under chapters on Faith, Commandments, and Means of Grace."<a href="#cite_note-22">[21]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Catechism" title="Baltimore Catechism">Baltimore Catechism</a> </td> <td align="center">1885 </td> <td align="center">Fr. Januarius De Concilio </td> <td>Various editions of the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Catechism" title="Baltimore Catechism">Baltimore Catechism</a> were the de facto standard Catholic school text in America from 1885 to the late 1960s. It was often taught by rote. The most common edition has a series of questions with their answers, which are followed by explanations in more depth. These are often accompanied by biblical quotes. There is a test at the end of every chapter.<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Explicación del catecismo católico </td> <td align="center">1900 </td> <td align="center">Ángel María de Arcos </td> <td>Explicación del catecismo católico breve y sencilla por el R. P. Ángel María de Arcos.<a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Catechism_of_Saint_Pius_X" title="Catechism of Saint Pius X">Catechism of Saint Pius X</a> </td> <td align="center">1908 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_X" title="Pope Pius X">Pope Pius X</a> </td> <td>It was issued by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_X" title="Pope Pius X">Pope Pius X</a> at the beginning of the 20th century in Italian, with the intention that all Catholics could easily understand their faith.<a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Catechism" title="Dutch Catechism">Dutch Catechism</a> </td> <td align="center">1966 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Schillebeeckx" title="Edward Schillebeeckx">Edward Schillebeeckx</a> & <a href="/wiki/Piet_Schoonenberg" title="Piet Schoonenberg">Piet Schoonenberg</a>, S.J. </td> <td>The first comprehensive post-<a href="/wiki/Vatican_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Vatican II">Vatican II</a> Catholic catechism. It was commissioned and authorised by the <a href="/wiki/Bishops%27_Conference_of_the_Netherlands" title="Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands">Catholic hierarchy of the Netherlands</a>, and in its foreword declares as its intention: "to make the message of Jesus Christ sound as new as it is." The catechism, a bestseller, contained a number of problematic formulations. These were reviewed by a commission of cardinals, who detailed several significant shortcomings in the new catechism's presentation of Catholic doctrine. They were able, nonetheless, to "leave untouched by far the greatest part of the New Catechism," while offering their support for "the laudable purpose of the authors of the Catechism, namely, to present the eternal good tidings of Christ in a way adapted to the understanding and the thinking of the present day man."<a href="#cite_note-26">[25]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Catechism of the Catholic Church">Catechism of the Catholic Church</a> </td> <td align="center">1992 </td> <td align="center">Various </td> <td>The first complete systematic synthesis of faith issued since the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Trent" title="Council of Trent">Council of Trent</a> in 1566. It contains articles on the classical topics of the official teaching of the Catholic Church on all matters of faith and morals. Since the official language of the Catholic Church is Latin, official teaching documents distributed in Latin are unlikely to change in perceived meaning over time. The Latin language version of the catechism, published 8 September 1997, is the <a href="/wiki/Editio_typica" title="Editio typica">editio typica</a>—the normative and definitive text. The principal source materials for this work are the Sacred Scriptures, the Church Fathers, the liturgy, and the <a href="/wiki/Magisterium" title="Magisterium">Magisterium</a>. This catechism is intended to serve "as a point of reference for the catechisms or compendia that are composed in the various countries." – Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 1985, Final Report II B a, 4. <a href="/wiki/Fidei_depositum" class="mw-redirect" title="Fidei depositum">Fidei depositum</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Constitution">Apostolic Constitution</a> which states that the catechism of the Catholic Church is for the laity in its address to all the people of God. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Katechizm Płocki </td> <td align="center">2004 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Wielgus" title="Stanisław Wielgus">Stanisław Wielgus</a> </td> <td>Katechizm Płocki: Wyznanie wiary, Celebracja misterium chrześcijańskiego, Życie w Chrystusie, Modlitwa chrześcijańska.<a href="#cite_note-27">[26]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church </td> <td align="center">2005 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops" title="United States Conference of Catholic Bishops">USCCB</a> </td> <td>It originated with a request of <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> in February 2003 and was issued by his successor <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> 28 June 2005. The English version was printed at Libreria Editrice Vaticana in 2006. Unlike the larger catechism, the Compendium is similar in format to the Baltimore Catechism with 598 questions and answers, providing an easier format with only the "essential" contents of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as the title suggests. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">United States Catholic Catechism for Adults </td> <td align="center">2006 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops" title="United States Conference of Catholic Bishops">USCCB</a> </td> <td>The 1992 Vatican catechism had several aims, among them to be an "authentic reference text for teaching Catholic doctrine and particularly for preparing local catechisms". <a href="/wiki/United_States_Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops" title="United States Conference of Catholic Bishops">American bishops</a> responded with the 2006 United States Catholic Catechism for Adults (USCCB, 2006) – similar in format to a college textbook, targeting adults, contain seven elements that bring more depth to the material than the 'Compendium', providing more flexibility for diverse groups of people to study its contents. Each section or chapter contains the following: story or lesson of faith, foundation and application, sidebars, relationship to culture, discussion questions, doctrinal statements, and meditation and prayer. The lessons of faith stories are about individuals from the United States and allow the American reader to better relate to these individuals. This version of the catechism is available on audio CD-ROM as well. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Youcat" title="Youcat">Youcat</a> </td> <td align="center">2011 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Sch%C3%B6nborn" title="Christoph Schönborn">Christoph Schönborn</a> </td> <td>Youcat, short for Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, is a publication that aims to be an aid for youth to better understand the Catechism of the Catholic Church. </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Christ – Our Pascha </td> <td align="center">2012 </td> <td align="center">Synod of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church" title="Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church">Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church</a><a href="#cite_note-Christ_Our_Pascha-28">[27]</a> </td> <td>An <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Catholic">Eastern Catholic</a> catechism, created by the Ukrainian Greek Church & used by some[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">which?</a>] of the other Eastern Catholic churches as well[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>], as it provides a more Eastern perspective on the universal doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, as well as delving into <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christian</a> practices and beliefs typically not emphasized in <a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church">Western Catholicism</a>. An English translation appeared in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-Christ_Our_Pascha-28">[27]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_historical_catechisms">Other historical catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other historical catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Disputatio Puerorum Per Interrogationes Et Responsiones Catechism by <a href="/wiki/Alcuin" title="Alcuin">Alcuin</a> contains questions and answers. The question is asked by a student and the teacher answers him.<a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a> Weißenburger Katechismus Written at the end of 8th century, intended for priests in <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a>. Created in <a href="/wiki/Weissenburg_Abbey,_Alsace" title="Weissenburg Abbey, Alsace">Weissenburg Abbey</a> in Alsace. The book contains: <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a>, form of <a href="/wiki/Confession_(religion)" title="Confession (religion)">confession</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" title="Seven deadly sins">seven deadly sins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">Apostles' Creed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athanasian_Creed" title="Athanasian Creed">Athanasian Creed</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gloria_in_excelsis_Deo" title="Gloria in excelsis Deo">Gloria in excelsis Deo</a> hymn. This catechism was created in the wake of canons prescribed by <a href="/wiki/Admonitio_generalis" title="Admonitio generalis">Admonitio generalis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[29]</a> <a href="/wiki/Elucidarium" title="Elucidarium">Elucidarium</a> Encyclopedic work about medieval Christian theology, originally written in the late 11th century by <a href="/wiki/Honorius_Augustodunensis" title="Honorius Augustodunensis">Honorius Augustodunensis</a>. It was intended as a handbook for the lower and less educated clergy. De quinque septenis seu septenariis by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Saint_Victor" title="Hugh of Saint Victor">Hugh of Saint Victor</a> Work about <a href="/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" title="Seven deadly sins">seven deadly sins</a>, seven petitions of the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seven_gifts_of_the_Holy_Spirit" title="Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit">seven gifts of the Holy</a> Ghost, <a href="/wiki/Seven_virtues" title="Seven virtues">seven virtues</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Beatitudes" title="Beatitudes">Beatitudes</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ignorantia_sacerdotum">Ignorantia sacerdotum</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ignorantia sacerdotum" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Ignorantia Sacerdotum are the <a href="/wiki/Incipit" title="Incipit">first words</a> and the better-known title of De Informatione Simplicium, a <a href="/wiki/Catechetical" class="mw-redirect" title="Catechetical">catechetical</a> manual drafted by <a href="/wiki/John_Peckham" title="John Peckham">Archbishop Pecham</a>'s provincial Council of <a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a> in 1281.<a href="#cite_note-31">[30]</a> It called for the memorisation of the Apostles' Creed, the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a>, and the two-fold injunction to <a href="/wiki/Great_Commandment" title="Great Commandment">"love the Lord thy God with all thy heart... and thy neighbour as thyself."</a>. It also emphasised the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Virtues" class="mw-redirect" title="Seven Virtues">Seven Virtues</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Deadly_Sins" class="mw-redirect" title="Seven Deadly Sins">Seven Deadly Sins</a>, the Seven <a href="/wiki/Sacraments_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Sacraments of the Catholic Church">Sacraments</a>, and the Seven <a href="/wiki/Works_of_Mercy" class="mw-redirect" title="Works of Mercy">Works of Mercy</a>. A 1357 translation into English is often called the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lay-Folk%27s_Catechism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lay-Folk's Catechism (page does not exist)">Lay-Folk's Catechism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Catechetical_Instructions_of_St._Thomas_Aquinas">The Catechetical Instructions of St. Thomas Aquinas</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Catechetical Instructions of St. Thomas Aquinas" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The catechetical instructions of Saint <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a> were used generally throughout the 13th and 14th centuries as manuals and textbooks for priests and teachers of religion. "The Explanations of St. Thomas," wrote Spirago, "are remarkable for their conciseness and their simplicity of language; they are especially noteworthy because the main parts of the catechetical course of instruction are brought into connection with one another so that they appear as one harmonious whole." The influence of these works is especially prominent in the "Roman Catechism" which the Council of Trent ordered written for parish priests and for all teachers of religion. Many of the explanatory passages in both works are almost identical. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id='Catechism_of_Christian_Doctrine_(or_"Penny_Catechism")'>Catechism of Christian Doctrine (or "Penny Catechism")</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=8" title='Edit section: Catechism of Christian Doctrine (or "Penny Catechism")' class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> A question-and-answer format catechism that was the standard catechetical text in <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> in the earlier part of the 20th century. Popularly called the Penny Catechism, as the original version only cost one <a href="/wiki/Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coin)" title="Penny (British pre-decimal coin)">penny</a>. Various editions of the Penny Catechism were issued through the century and changes were made to the text.<a href="#cite_note-33">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Catechism_for_Filipino_Catholics">Catechism for Filipino Catholics</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Catechism for Filipino Catholics" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Catechism_for_Filipino_Catholics" title="Catechism for Filipino Catholics">Catechism for Filipino Catholics</a> (CFC) is a contextualised and <a href="/wiki/Inculturation" title="Inculturation">inculturated</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_the_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in the Philippines">Filipino Catholic</a> catechism prepared by the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Bishops%27_Conference_of_the_Philippines" title="Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines">Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines</a> and approved by the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a>. The draft was produced by the Conference's "Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education," and is an update of the late 16th century <a href="/wiki/Doctrina_Cristiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctrina Cristiana">Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Espanola Y Tagala</a>, which was a <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Hispano</a>-<a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a> version of the earlier Hispano-Chinese Doctrina that was the First book of the Spanish Philippines|first book printed in the Philippines using <a href="/wiki/Moveable_type" class="mw-redirect" title="Moveable type">moveable type</a>. The Doctrina Cristiana<a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a> was written in Tagalog (both in a hispanised <a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a> and the then-common indigenous <a href="/wiki/Baybayin" title="Baybayin">Baybayin</a> script), as well as <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_Philippines" title="Spanish language in the Philippines">Spanish</a>. Amongst the contents of the Doctrina are the Spanish alphabet and <a href="/wiki/Phonics" title="Phonics">phonics</a>, basic prayers shown in <a href="/wiki/Polyglot_(book)" title="Polyglot (book)">both languages</a> – in the case of the Tagalog, using archaic words and <a href="/wiki/Digraphia" title="Digraphia">both scripts</a> – and a brief catechism in question-and-answer format. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Enchiridion_symbolorum,_definitionum_et_declarationum_de_rebus_fidei_et_morum">Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Enchiridion_symbolorum,_definitionum_et_declarationum_de_rebus_fidei_et_morum" title="Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum">Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum</a>, also known as Enchiridion or Denzinger, is a <a href="/wiki/Compendium" title="Compendium">compendium</a> of all basic texts of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> since the <a href="/wiki/Apostles_in_the_New_Testament" title="Apostles in the New Testament">apostles</a>. Commissioned by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX" title="Pope Pius IX">Pope Pius IX</a>, it has been in use since 1854, and has been updated periodically. It is a compendium of faith, like a catechism. By including all relevant teachings throughout history, it is at the same time, more than a catechism. It is a search instrument for theologians, historians and anybody interested in Christian religion. The latest updates of the Enchiridion extend to the teachings of <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Baltimore" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop of Baltimore">Archbishop of Baltimore</a> Cardinal <a href="/wiki/James_Gibbons" title="James Gibbons">James Gibbons</a> is quoted in earlier versions of the Enchiridion, that every theologian should have always two books at hand, the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Bible">Holy Bible</a> and this Enchiridion. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tradivox_catechism_series">Tradivox catechism series</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tradivox catechism series" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The Tradivox Catholic Catechism Index is a twenty-volume book series developed by Tradivox and published by <a href="/wiki/Sophia_Institute_Press" title="Sophia Institute Press">Sophia Institute Press</a>, consisting of reprints of more than thirty historical Catholic <a href="#Catholic_catechisms">catechisms</a>.<a href="#cite_note-35">[34]</a> When complete, it will consist of twenty cross-indexed hardcover volumes.<a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a> The project has received several endorsements from prominent members of the Catholic clergy & public, including <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Leo_Burke" title="Raymond Leo Burke">Cardinal Burke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller" title="Gerhard Ludwig Müller">Cardinal Müller</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Pell" title="George Pell">Cardinal Pell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Strickland" title="Joseph Strickland">Bishop Strickland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athanasius_Schneider" title="Athanasius Schneider">Bishop Schneider</a>, and theologian <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kwasniewski" title="Peter Kwasniewski">Peter Kwasniewski</a>.<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a> As the episcopal advisor of the project, Bishop Schneider has written a foreword for each of the hardcover volumes in the series.<a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Contents">Contents</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Contents" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Volume</th> <th>Content</th> <th>Publication Date</th> <th>ISBN </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">1 </td> <td> <ul><li>An Honest Godlye Instruction (1556) by <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Bonner" title="Edmund Bonner">Edmund Bonner</a></li> <li>A Catechisme of Christian Doctrine (1567) by <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Vaux" title="Laurence Vaux">Laurence Vaux</a></li> <li>The Christian Doctrine (1573) by Fr. Diego de Ledesma</li></ul> </td> <td align="center">September 2020 </td> <td align="center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-350-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-350-7">978-1-64413-350-7</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">2 </td> <td> <ul><li>A Shorte Catechisme (1614) by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine" title="Robert Bellarmine">Robert Bellarmine</a></li> <li>An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine [or Douay Catechism] (1649) by Henry Tuberville</li> <li>The Childes Catechism (1678) by Vincent Sadler.</li></ul> </td> <td align="center">December 2020 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-352-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-352-1">978-1-64413-352-1</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">3 </td> <td> <ul><li>Catechisms of Bishop Richard Challoner (18th century) by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Challoner" title="Richard Challoner">Richard Challoner</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">April 2021 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-354-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-354-5">978-1-64413-354-5</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">4 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Most Rev. Dr. James Butler's Catechism (1775) by <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Cashel#Roman_Catholic_succession" title="Archbishop of Cashel">James Butler</a></li> <li>The Catechism Ordered by the National Synod of Maynooth (1884)</li> <li>The Short Catechism Extracted (1891)</li></ul> </td> <td align="center">July 2021 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-356-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-356-9">978-1-64413-356-9</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">5 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine, By Way of Question and Answer (1742) by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Donlevy" title="Andrew Donlevy">Donlevy</a></li> <li>A Catechism Moral and Controversial (1752) by Fr. Burke</li></ul> </td> <td align="center">October 2021 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-358-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-358-3">978-1-64413-358-3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">6 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Catechetical Instructions (ca. 1260) by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a></li> <li>Ignorantia Sacerdotum (1281) by the <a href="/wiki/John_Peckham" title="John Peckham">Provincial Council of Lambeth</a></li> <li>Quinque Verba (1300)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oculus_Sacerdotis" title="Oculus Sacerdotis">Oculus Sacerdotis</a> (ca. 1320) by <a href="/wiki/William_of_Pagula" title="William of Pagula">William of Pagula</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">January 2022 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-360-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-360-6">978-1-64413-360-6</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">7 </td> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catechism" title="Roman Catechism">The Catechism of the Council of Trent</a> (1566)</li></ul> </td> <td align="center">April 2022 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-362-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-362-0">978-1-64413-362-0</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">8 </td> <td> <ul><li>A Dogmatic Catechism (1842) by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Frassinetti" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Frassinetti">Joseph Frassinetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catechism_of_Saint_Pius_X" title="Catechism of Saint Pius X">Compendium of Christian Doctrine</a> (1908) by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_X" title="Pope Pius X">Pope Pius X</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">July 2022 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-364-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-364-4">978-1-64413-364-4</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">9 </td> <td> <ul><li>Summa Doctrina Christianae or Large Catechism (1555) by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Canisius" title="Peter Canisius">Peter Canisius</a></li> <li>Catechismus Minor or Small Catechism (1558) by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Canisius" title="Peter Canisius">Peter Canisius</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">October 2022 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-366-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-366-8">978-1-64413-366-8</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">10 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Catechism of Perseverance [Part 1] (1854) by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Gaume" title="Jean-Joseph Gaume">Jean-Joseph Gaume</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">January 2023 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-368-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-368-2">978-1-64413-368-2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">11 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Catechism of Perseverance [Part 2] (1854) by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Gaume" title="Jean-Joseph Gaume">Jean-Joseph Gaume</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">April 2023 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-370-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-370-5">978-1-64413-370-5</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">12 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Catechism of Perseverance [Part 3] (1854) by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Gaume" title="Jean-Joseph Gaume">Jean-Joseph Gaume</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">July 2023 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-372-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-372-9">978-1-64413-372-9</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">13 </td> <td> <ul><li>The Catechism of Perseverance [Part 4] (1854) by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Gaume" title="Jean-Joseph Gaume">Jean-Joseph Gaume</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">October 2023 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-374-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-374-3">978-1-64413-374-3</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">14 </td> <td> <ul><li>Small Catechism (19th century) by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Deharbe" title="Joseph Deharbe">Joseph Deharbe</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Complete_Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Religion" class="extiw" title="s:A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion">A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion</a> (1847) by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Deharbe" title="Joseph Deharbe">Joseph Deharbe</a></li></ul> </td> <td align="center">January 2024 </td> <td align="center"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-376-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-64413-376-7">978-1-64413-376-7</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Orthodox_catechisms">Orthodox catechisms</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Orthodox catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Unlike the Catholic Church, there is no teaching <a href="/wiki/Magisterium" title="Magisterium">Magisterium</a> in the Orthodox world. Most catechumens are instructed orally by a deacon or priest at the church. There is emphasis on being taught by simply being in church, and listening to the services. Most Orthodox would refer back to the original writings of the <a href="/wiki/Church_Fathers" title="Church Fathers">Church Fathers</a>, including the Catechetical Lectures of St. <a href="/wiki/Cyril_of_Jerusalem" title="Cyril of Jerusalem">Cyril of Jerusalem</a><a href="#cite_note-newadvent.org-5">[5]</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent" title="The Ladder of Divine Ascent">The Ladder of Divine Ascent</a>. New catechumens would generally be encouraged to read "The Orthodox Church" by <a href="/wiki/Kallistos_Ware" title="Kallistos Ware">Kallistos Ware</a> to get an overview of the Christian faith from an Orthodox perspective before being given more advanced readings. In recent times, perhaps under influence from the West, a number of catechisms have emerged in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Philaret_Drozdov" title="Philaret Drozdov">Philaret</a> Catechism,<a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a> which is entitled, "The Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church," <a href="//archive.org/details/newstylecatechis0000unse/page/n6" class="extiw" title="iarchive:newstylecatechis0000unse/page/n6">"A new-style catechism on the Eastern Orthodox faith for adults"</a> by Rev. George Mastrantonis, and the more modern "The Orthodox Faith" by Protopresbyter <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hopko" title="Thomas Hopko">Thomas Hopko</a>.<a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> However, presently such catechisms are not widely used. The <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodox Churches</a> rely heavily on the <a href="/wiki/Didascalia_Apostolorum" title="Didascalia Apostolorum">Didascalia Apostolorum</a>. The Ethiopic version is known as the "Ethiopic Didascalia." It is included in the <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Tewahedo_biblical_canon" title="Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon">Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon</a>, and is read from on Sundays. The faith of the <a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church" title="Coptic Orthodox Church">Coptic Orthodox Church</a> has historically been evidenced in the lives and sayings of the early desert monks, which was recorded in "The paradise of the holy fathers," <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Paradise/Volume_1" class="extiw" title="s:The Paradise/Volume 1">Volume 1</a> and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Paradise/Volume_2" class="extiw" title="s:The Paradise/Volume 2">Volume 2</a>. Recently the Coptic church has used Fr. Tadros Malaty's books,<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Pope_Shenouda_III_of_Alexandria" title="Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria">Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria</a>'s many books, to help lay people better understand their Coptic faith. However, like the Eastern Orthodox church, the faith is mostly expounded in the lives of the saints<a href="#cite_note-42">[41]</a> <a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a> and the material recited during the services. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Protestant_catechisms">Protestant catechisms</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Protestant catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg/220px-Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1769" data-file-height="1344"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 167px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg/220px-Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="167" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg/330px-Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg/440px-Jules-Alexis_Muenier_-_La_Le%C3%A7on_de_cat%C3%A9chisme.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The Catechism Lesson by <a href="/wiki/Jules-Alexis_Muenier" title="Jules-Alexis Muenier">Jules-Alexis Meunier</a></figcaption></figure> The catechism's question-and-answer format, with a view toward the instruction of children, was a form adopted by the various Protestant confessions almost from the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a>. Among the first projects of the Reformation was the production of catechisms self-consciously modelled after the older traditions of <a href="/wiki/Cyril_of_Jerusalem" title="Cyril of Jerusalem">Cyril of Jerusalem</a> and <a href="/wiki/Augustine" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustine">Augustine</a>. These catechisms showed special admiration for <a href="/wiki/Chrysostom" class="mw-redirect" title="Chrysostom">Chrysostom</a>'s view of the family as a "little church", and placed strong responsibility on every father to teach his children, to prevent them from coming to baptism or the Lord's table ignorant of the doctrine under which they are expected to live as Christians. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anglican_catechisms">Anglican catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Anglican catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</a> includes a catechism. In older editions it is a brief manual for the instruction of those preparing to be brought before the bishop for <a href="/wiki/Confirmation" title="Confirmation">confirmation</a>: the baptised first professes his baptism, and then rehearses the principal elements of the faith into which he has been baptised: the <a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">Apostles' Creed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_sacraments" title="Anglican sacraments">sacraments</a>. <blockquote>Catechist: What is your Name? Answer: N. or M. Catechist: Who gave you this Name? Answer: My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. </blockquote> The "N. or M." stands for the Latin, "nomen vel nomina", meaning "name or names". It is an accident of typography that "nomina" (nn.) came to be represented by "m". The catechism was published in 1604 as a stand-alone document. It was later bound up with the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. This edition holds authority across the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: United Kingdom" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Author</th> <th>Title</th> <th>Publication </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Nicholson_(bishop_of_Gloucester)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Nicholson (bishop of Gloucester)">William Nicholson</a></td> <td>"An exposition of the catechism of the Church of England"</td> <td>1655<a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zacheus_Isham" title="Zacheus Isham">Zacheus Isham</a></td> <td>"The Catechism of the Church: with Proofs from the New Testament: and Some Additional Questions and Answers"</td> <td>1694<a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Clarke" title="Samuel Clarke">Samuel Clarke</a></td> <td>"An exposition of the church-catechism"</td> <td>1719<a href="#cite_note-46">[45]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Secker" title="Thomas Secker">Thomas Secker</a></td> <td>"Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England"</td> <td>1769 (vol. I<a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> and vol. II<a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a>)<a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Thomas Howell</td> <td>"A familiar and practical improvement of the church catechism"</td> <td>1775<a href="#cite_note-50">[49]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Thomas Howell</td> <td>"Discourses on the commandments"</td> <td>1824<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Stephen Wilkinson Dowell</td> <td>"A catechism on the services of the Church of England"</td> <td>1852<a href="#cite_note-52">[51]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Vernon Staley</td> <td>"The Catholic religion : a manual of instruction for members of the Anglican Church"</td> <td>1908<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>"The Catechism An Outline of the Faith'</td> <td>1998 by <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_States">United States</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: United States" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopal Church</a>'s 1928 prayer book included a catechism with offices of instruction, based upon the catechism of the Church of England's 1662 prayer book. The Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book includes a catechism newly written for the prayer book, intended as "an outline of instruction" and "a brief summary of the Church's teaching".<a href="#cite_note-BCP.1979-57">[56]</a> "To Be A Christian: An Anglican Catechism" was published in 2020 by Anglican House Media Ministries, the publishing house of the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_in_North_America" title="Anglican Church in North America">Anglican Church in North America</a> (ACNA).<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Baptist_catechisms">Baptist catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Baptist catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Keach%27s_Catechism" title="Keach's Catechism">Keach's Catechism</a> is utilized in many <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Baptists" title="Reformed Baptists">Particular Baptist</a> congregations. Nondenominational Reformed Baptist preacher <a href="/wiki/John_Piper_(theologian)" title="John Piper (theologian)">John Piper</a> wrote a commentary on this catechism, publishing it in 1986. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lutheran_catechisms">Lutheran catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Lutheran catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Luther%27s_Large_Catechism" title="Luther's Large Catechism">Luther's Large Catechism</a> (1529) typifies the emphasis which the churches of the <a href="/wiki/Augsburg_Confession" title="Augsburg Confession">Augsburg Confession</a> placed on the importance of knowledge and understanding of the articles of the Christian faith. Primarily intended as instruction to teachers, especially to parents, the catechism consists of a series of exhortations on the importance of each topic of the catechism. It is meant for those who have the capacity to understand, and is meant to be memorized and then repeatedly reviewed so that the Small Catechism could be taught with understanding. For example, the author stipulates in the preface: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Therefore it is the duty of every father of a family to question and examine his children and servants at least once a week and to ascertain what they know of it, or are learning and, if they do not know it, to keep them faithfully at it. The catechism, Luther wrote, should consist of instruction in the rule of conduct, which always accuses us because we fail to keep it (<a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a>), the rule of faith (<a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">Apostles' Creed</a>), the rule of prayer (<a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a>), and the sacraments (<a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">baptism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confession_in_the_Lutheran_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Confession in the Lutheran Church">confession</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eucharist_in_the_Lutheran_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Eucharist in the Lutheran Church">communion</a>).</blockquote> Luther adds: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">However, it is not enough for them to comprehend and recite these parts according to the words only, but the young people should also be made to attend the preaching, especially during the time which is devoted to the catechism, that they may hear it explained and may learn to understand what every part contains, so as to be able to recite it as they have heard it, and, when asked, may give a correct answer, so that the preaching may not be without profit and fruit.</blockquote> <a href="/wiki/Luther%27s_Small_Catechism" title="Luther's Small Catechism">Luther's Small Catechism</a>, in contrast, is written to accommodate the understanding of a child or an uneducated person. It begins: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">The First Commandment You shall have no other gods. Q. What does this mean? A. We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Methodist_catechisms">Methodist catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Methodist catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/The_Probationer%27s_Catechism" title="The Probationer's Catechism">The Probationer's Catechism</a> was authored by <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> divine <a href="/wiki/Stephen_O._Garrison" title="Stephen O. Garrison">S. Olin Garrison</a> for probationary members of the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Methodist Episcopal Church">Methodist Episcopal Church</a> seeking <a href="/wiki/Methodism#Membership" title="Methodism">full membership</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Connexionalism" title="Connexionalism">connexion</a>; it has been one of the most widely used catechisms in Methodist history.<a href="#cite_note-KirbyRiveraRicheyRowe1996-59">[58]</a> A Catechism on the Christian Religion: The Doctrines of Christianity with Special Emphasis on Wesleyan Concepts by Mel-Thomas and Helen Rothwell is another popular catechism used to explicate <a href="/wiki/Wesleyanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Wesleyanism">Wesleyan-Arminian theology</a>. More recent publications are A Catechism Prepared Especially for the Members of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church (printed in the United States), A Larger Catechism: For Members of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (printed in the United States), and A Catechism for the Use of the People Called Methodists (printed in Great Britain).<a href="#cite_note-Marsh2006-60">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pentecostal_catechisms">Pentecostal catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Pentecostal catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> While the Pentecostal movement has no one official catechism or confession, nevertheless Pentecostal authors have produced catechetical works. William Seymour, founder of the Azusa Street revival, included a catechism in the Doctrines and Disciplines of the Azusa Street Apostolic Faith Mission. Assemblies of God minister Warren D. Combs produced a catechism in the 1960s.<a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a> In 2016 Henry Volk the host of the Theology in Perspective podcast authored a resource entitled, A Pentecostal Catechism.<a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quaker_catechisms">Quaker catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Quaker catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> A prominent catechism of the <a href="/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious Society of Friends">Religious Society of Friends</a> is A Catechism and Confession of Faith (1673), published by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Barclay" title="Robert Barclay">Robert Barclay</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Coffey2020-63">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reformed_catechisms">Reformed catechisms</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Reformed catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Catechism.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Catechism.jpg/220px-The_Catechism.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="898"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Catechism.jpg/220px-The_Catechism.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Catechism.jpg/330px-The_Catechism.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Catechism.jpg/440px-The_Catechism.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The Catechism, painting by Edith Hartry</figcaption></figure> Calvin's 1545 preface to the <a href="/wiki/Genevan_Catechism" class="mw-redirect" title="Genevan Catechism">Genevan Catechism</a> begins with an acknowledgement that the several traditions and cultures which were joined in the Reformed movement would produce their own form of instruction in each place. While Calvin argues that no effort should be expended on preventing this, he adds: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">We are all directed to one Christ, in whose truth being united together, we may grow up into one body and one spirit, and with the same mouth also proclaim whatever belongs to the sum of faith. Catechists not intent on this end, besides fatally injuring the Church, by sowing the materials of dissension in religion, also introduce an impious profanation of baptism. For where can any longer be the utility of baptism unless this remain as its foundation – that we all agree in one faith? Wherefore, those who publish Catechisms ought to be the more carefully on their guard, by producing anything rashly, they may not for the present only, but in regard to posterity also, do grievous harm to piety, and inflict a deadly wound on the Church.</blockquote> The scandal of diverse instruction is that it produces diverse baptisms and diverse communions, and diverse faith. However, forms may vary without introducing substantial differences, according to the Reformed view of doctrine. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Genevan_Catechism">Genevan Catechism</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Genevan Catechism" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Genevan_Catechism" class="mw-redirect" title="Genevan Catechism">Genevan Catechism</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Genevan_Catechism.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Genevan_Catechism.jpg/220px-Genevan_Catechism.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1304" data-file-height="1931"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 326px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Genevan_Catechism.jpg/220px-Genevan_Catechism.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="326" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Genevan_Catechism.jpg/330px-Genevan_Catechism.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Genevan_Catechism.jpg/440px-Genevan_Catechism.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Title page of 1545 edition of the Genevan Catechism</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a> produced a catechism while at <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> (1541), which underwent two major revisions (1545 and 1560). Calvin's aim in writing the catechism of 1545 was to set a basic pattern of doctrine, meant to be imitated by other catechists, which would not affirm local distinctions or dwell on controversial issues, but would serve as a pattern for what was expected to be taught by Christian fathers and other teachers of children in the church. The catechism is organized on the topics of <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a>, law, prayer and <a href="/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">sacraments</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <ol><li>Master. What is the chief end of human life? <dl><dd>Scholar. To know God by whom men were created.</dd></dl></li> <li>M. What reason have you for saying so? <dl><dd>S. Because he created us and placed us in this world to be glorified in us. And it is indeed right that our life, of which himself is the beginning, should be devoted to his glory.</dd></dl></li> <li>M. What is the highest good of man? <dl><dd>S. The very same thing.</dd></dl></li></ol></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Heidelberg_Catechism">Heidelberg Catechism</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Heidelberg Catechism" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism" title="Heidelberg Catechism">Heidelberg Catechism</a></div> After Protestantism entered into the Palatinate, in 1546 the controversy between Lutherans and Calvinists broke out, and especially while the region was under the elector <a href="/wiki/Otto_Henry,_Elector_Palatine" title="Otto Henry, Elector Palatine">Otto Heinrich</a> (1556–1559), this conflict in <a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a>, particularly in <a href="/wiki/Heidelberg" title="Heidelberg">Heidelberg</a>, became increasingly bitter and turned violent. When <a href="/wiki/Frederick_III,_Elector_Palatine" title="Frederick III, Elector Palatine">Frederick III, Elector Palatine</a>, came into power in 1559 he put his authority behind the Calvinistic view on the Lord's Supper, which denied the local presence of the body of Jesus Christ in the elements of the sacrament. He turned <a href="/wiki/Sapienz_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Sapienz College">Sapienz College</a> into a school of divinity, and in 1562 he placed over it a pupil and friend of Luther's colleague, <a href="/wiki/Philipp_Melanchthon" class="mw-redirect" title="Philipp Melanchthon">Philipp Melanchthon</a>, named <a href="/wiki/Zacharias_Ursinus" title="Zacharias Ursinus">Zacharias Ursinus</a>. In an attempt to resolve the religious disputes in his domain, Frederick called upon Ursinus and his colleague <a href="/wiki/Caspar_Olevianus" class="mw-redirect" title="Caspar Olevianus">Caspar Olevianus</a> (preacher to Frederick's court) to produce a catechism. The two collaborators referred to existing catechetical literature, and especially relied on the catechisms of Calvin and of <a href="/wiki/John_Lasco" class="mw-redirect" title="John Lasco">John Lasco</a>. To prepare the catechism, they adopted the method of sketching drafts independently, and then bringing together the work to combine their efforts. "The final preparation was the work of both theologians, with the constant co-operation of Frederick III. Ursinus has always been regarded as the principal author, as he was afterwards the chief defender and interpreter of the Catechism; still, it would appear that the nervous German style, the division into three parts (as distinguished from the five parts in the Catechism of Calvin and the previous draft of Ursinus), and the genial warmth and unction of the whole work, are chiefly due to Olevianus." (Schaff, in. Am. Presb. Rev. July 1863, p. 379). The structure of the <a href="/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism" title="Heidelberg Catechism">Heidelberg Catechism</a> is spelled out in the second question; and the three-part structure seen there is based on the belief that the single work of salvation brings forward the three persons of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> in turn, to make God fully and intimately known by his work of salvation, referring to the <a href="/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed">Apostles' Creed</a> as an epitome of Christian faith. Assurance of salvation is the unifying theme throughout this catechism: assurance obtained by the work of Christ, applied through the sacraments, and resulting in grateful obedience to the commandments and persistence in prayer. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Lord's Day 1. Q. What is thy only comfort in life and death? A. That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ; who, with his precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him. Q. How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happily? A. Three; the first, how great my sins and miseries are; the second, how I may be delivered from all my sins and miseries; the third, how I shall express my gratitude to God for such deliverance.</blockquote> The Heidelberg Catechism is the most widely used of the Catechisms of the <a href="/wiki/Reformed_churches" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed churches">Reformed churches</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Westminster_Catechisms">Westminster Catechisms</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Westminster Catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Larger_Catechism" title="Westminster Larger Catechism">Westminster Larger Catechism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Shorter_Catechism" title="Westminster Shorter Catechism">Westminster Shorter Catechism</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg/200px-Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="145" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1483"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 200px;height: 145px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg/200px-Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg" data-width="200" data-height="145" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg/300px-Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg/400px-Westerminster_catechism_first_page.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The first page of the ninth edition of The Shorter Catechism Explained (<a href="/wiki/Perth,_Scotland" title="Perth, Scotland">Perth</a>, 1785).</figcaption></figure> Together with the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith" title="Westminster Confession of Faith">Westminster Confession of Faith</a> (1647), the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Assembly" title="Westminster Assembly">Westminster Assembly</a> also produced two catechisms, a <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Larger_Catechism" title="Westminster Larger Catechism">Larger</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Shorter_Catechism" title="Westminster Shorter Catechism">Shorter</a>, which were intended for use in Christian families and in churches. These documents have served as the doctrinal standards, subordinate to the Bible, for Presbyterians and other Reformed churches around the world. The Shorter Catechism shows the Assembly's reliance upon the previous work of Calvin, Lasco, and the theologians of Heidelberg. It comprises two main sections summarizing what the Scriptures principally teach: the doctrine of God, and the duty required of men. Questions and answers cover the usual elements: <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">sacraments</a>, and prayer. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Q. What is the chief end of man? A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. Q. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. Q. What do the scriptures principally teach? A. The scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_Reformed_catechisms">Other Reformed catechisms</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Other Reformed catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Oecolampadius" class="mw-redirect" title="Oecolampadius">Oecolampadius</a> composed the Basel Catechism in 1526, Leo Juda (1534) followed by <a href="/wiki/E._W._Bullinger" title="E. W. Bullinger">Bullinger</a> (1555) published catechisms in Zurich. The French Reformed used Calvin's Genevan catechism, as well as works published by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Cappel" title="Louis Cappel">Louis Cappel</a> (1619), and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Drelincourt" title="Charles Drelincourt">Charles Drelincourt</a> (1642). <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes" title="Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes">Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes</a>, written by the <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a> minister <a href="/wiki/John_Cotton_(minister)" title="John Cotton (minister)">John Cotton</a> and published in 1656, was the first known children's book published in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-Cambridge-65">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavidsonMcTigue1988-66">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHunt2013860_%22first_book_especially_prepared_for_North_American_youth%22-67">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-Kane-68">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESilvey199519_%22the_first_book_printed_for_children_in_the_New_World_was_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes.%22-69">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHawesHiner1985190_%22Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes,_the_first_children's_book_written_and_published_in_America%22-70">[69]</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELibrary_of_Congress198226_"A_book_that_the_Library_lacks,_John_Cotton's_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes_(1656),_is_the_classic_example_of_the_moral_children's_book._In_this_small_question-and-answer_manual,_the_first_children's_book_printed_in_America"_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELibrary_of_Congress198226_%22A_book_that_the_Library_lacks,_John_Cotton's_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes_(1656),_is_the_classic_example_of_the_moral_children's_book._In_this_small_question-and-answer_manual,_the_first_children's_book_printed_in_America%22-71">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpurgeon2012148_%22first_children's_book_written_by_an_American%22-72">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-HigherEducation-73">[72]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Non-Christian_catechisms">Non-Christian catechisms</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Non-Christian catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">Hadith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oral_Torah" title="Oral Torah">Oral Torah</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abrahamic_religions">Abrahamic religions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Abrahamic religions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Judaism does not have a formal catechism. While there have been several attempts to formulate <a href="/wiki/Jewish_principles_of_faith" title="Jewish principles of faith">Jewish principles of faith</a>, and some of these have achieved wide acceptance, none can be described as being in the form of a catechism. The most widely recited formulation, <a href="/wiki/Yigdal" title="Yigdal">Yigdal</a>, is in the form of a <a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a> based on <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>' <a href="/wiki/13_Principles_of_Faith" class="mw-redirect" title="13 Principles of Faith">13 Articles of Faith</a>. Besides the manuals of instruction that were published by the Christians for use in their families and churches, there were other works produced by heretical sectarian groups intended as a compact refutation of Christian orthodoxy. For example, <a href="/wiki/Socinianism" title="Socinianism">Socinians</a> in Poland published the <a href="/wiki/Racovian_Catechism" title="Racovian Catechism">Racovian Catechism</a> in 1605, using the question and answer format of a catechism for the orderly presentation of their arguments against the Trinity and the doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a>, as these were understood by the Reformed churches from which they were forced to separate. <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> teaches children and new <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> the matters of faith, worship, and ethics in the form of a concise manual. They are popular in <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> as <a href="/wiki/Ilmihal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmihal">Ilmihal</a> [<a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%C4%B0lmih%C3%A2l" class="extiw" title="tr:Tam İlmihâl">tr</a>] (from the Arabic Ilm ul-Hal, Situation Science). It is also advised for every Muslim to have a basic knowledge of such matters of religion. The first chapter is the book of <a href="/wiki/Cleanliness" title="Cleanliness">cleanliness</a> and first to be taught are subjects such as: which are clean, what is clean and what is not clean, what people need to be cleansed from, how they should clean, and which water should they use to clean. There is a well-known book of catechism that is studied in <a href="/wiki/Pesantren" title="Pesantren">Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia</a> called Safinatun Najah, which talks about of matters of faith, worship and <a href="/wiki/Fiqh" title="Fiqh">jurisprudence</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indian_religions">Indian religions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Indian religions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Bhaktivinoda_Thakur" title="Bhaktivinoda Thakur">Bhaktivinoda Thakur</a>'s book Jaiva Dharma is an example of <a href="/wiki/Gaudiya_Vaishnava" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaudiya Vaishnava">Gaudiya Vaishnava</a> catechism. It follows the usual question-answer format. In the <a href="/wiki/Pali_Canon" title="Pali Canon">Pali Canon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Theravada" title="Theravada">Theravada</a> <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> a small bit of catechism appears as the fourth section of the <a href="/wiki/Khuddakapatha" class="mw-redirect" title="Khuddakapatha">Khuddakapatha</a>, as well as the forty-third and forty-fourth suttas of the <a href="/wiki/Majjhima_Nikaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Majjhima Nikaya">Majjhima Nikaya</a>. Henry Steel Olcott introduced his own form of <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_Catechism" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist Catechism">Buddhist Catechism</a>, appropriated from Christianity, to <a href="/wiki/Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon">Ceylon</a> when setting up his Buddhist education system during the late 19th century Buddhist revival on the island. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_religious_traditions">Other religious traditions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Other religious traditions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a> there is the "ČĪDAG ANDARZ Ī PŌRYŌTKĒŠĀN"<a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> also known as "Pand-nāmag ī Zardušt" (Book of the counsels of Zoroaster), which is a post-Sasanian compendium of apothegms intended to instruct every Zoroastrian male, upon his attaining the age of fifteen years, in fundamental religious and ethical principles, as well as in the daily duties incumbent upon him. In <a href="/wiki/Robert_Charles_Zaehner" title="Robert Charles Zaehner">Robert Charles Zaehner</a>'s words, it "sums up succinctly the whole of Zoroastrian doctrine: it is what every boy and girl of fifteen must know before he or she is invested with the sacred girdle {kusti}."<a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a> <a href="/wiki/Epicurean" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicurean">Epicurean</a> catechesis may have originated from the practice of writing outlines of Epicurean doctrines for easy memorization. Epicurus' <a href="/wiki/Letter_to_Herodotus" class="mw-redirect" title="Letter to Herodotus">Letter to Herodotus</a> is known as the "Little Epitome" which young students are instructed to memorize, and in antiquity they would move on to more advanced teachings with the "Large Epitome". The 40 <a href="/wiki/Principal_Doctrines" title="Principal Doctrines">Principal Doctrines</a> also serve the role of a catechism. The philosopher <a href="/wiki/Philodemus_of_Gadara" class="mw-redirect" title="Philodemus of Gadara">Philodemus of Gadara</a> instructed his students to keep an outline of the doctrines on wealth and economics, so that there are additional doctrines that advanced students may focus on. Schools of esoteric learning have used a catechetical style of instruction, as this Zodiac catechism shows: <blockquote>Q. "Where is the animal, O Lanoo? and where the Man? A. Fused into one, O Master of my Life. The two are one. But both have disappeared and naught remains but the deep fire of my desire. </blockquote> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Secular_catechisms">Secular catechisms</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Secular catechisms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> In the past, catechisms were written to rehearse the basic knowledge of a non-religious subject. Examples include numerous political catechisms published from the 18th to the 20th century in Europe as well as in North and South America.<a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a> See also the Catechism of the History of Newfoundland (c1856),<a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a> the Coal Catechism (1898),<a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a> and A Catechism of the Steam Engine (1856).<a href="#cite_note-79">[78]</a> "Elementary catechism on the Constitution of the United States" Arthur J. Stansbury (1828), "Catechism of the Constitution of the United States" Lewis Cruger (1863) and "A Catechism of the Constitution of the United States of America" John V. Overall. <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a>' 1847 work <a href="/wiki/Principles_of_Communism" class="mw-redirect" title="Principles of Communism">Principles of Communism</a> was written as a catechism: Engels subsequently decided that the format was not suited to the addition of historical material which he felt was necessary, and he and <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> restructured the material and used it as the nucleus of <a href="/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto" title="The Communist Manifesto">The Communist Manifesto</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a> Some literary works have also taken the form of a catechism. The 17th episode of <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a>'s novel <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" title="Ulysses (novel)">Ulysses</a>, known as "Ithaca", is written in the form of a catechism, as is <a href="/wiki/Ted_Hughes" title="Ted Hughes">Ted Hughes</a>' poem Examination at the Womb Door, from the collection <a href="/wiki/Crow_(poetry)" title="Crow (poetry)">Crow</a>.<a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">Henry IV, Part 1</a>: Act V, Scene I, Line 141 <a href="/wiki/Falstaff" class="mw-redirect" title="Falstaff">Falstaff</a> refers to his monologue as a catechism, explaining his view of the virtue of honor. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Catechism&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button 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Wilson Company. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/famousfirstfacts00kane_0/page/65">65, item 1729</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8242-0930-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8242-0930-3"><bdi>0-8242-0930-3</bdi></a>. <q>The first children's book was John Cotton's catechism Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spiritual Nourishment of Boston Babes in either England: But may be of like use for any children</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Famous+First+Facts%2C+A+Record+of+First+Happenings%2C+Discoveries%2C+and+Inventions+in+American+History&rft.pages=65%2C+item+1729&rft.edition=5th&rft.pub=H.W.+Wilson+Company&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0-8242-0930-3&rft.aulast=Kane&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffamousfirstfacts00kane_0%2Fpage%2F65&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatechism" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id='cite_note-FOOTNOTESilvey199519_"the_first_book_printed_for_children_in_the_New_World_was_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes."-69'><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESilvey199519_%22the_first_book_printed_for_children_in_the_New_World_was_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes.%22_69-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSilvey1995">Silvey 1995</a>, p. 19 "the first book printed for children in the New World was Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes.". </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHawesHiner1985190_"Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes,_the_first_children's_book_written_and_published_in_America"-70"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHawesHiner1985190_%22Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes,_the_first_children's_book_written_and_published_in_America%22_70-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHawesHiner1985">Hawes & Hiner 1985</a>, p. 190 "Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes, the first children's book written and published in America". </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELibrary_of_Congress198226_"A_book_that_the_Library_lacks,_John_Cotton's_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes_(1656),_is_the_classic_example_of_the_moral_children's_book._In_this_small_question-and-answer_manual,_the_first_children's_book_printed_in_America"-71"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELibrary_of_Congress198226_%22A_book_that_the_Library_lacks,_John_Cotton's_Spiritual_Milk_for_Boston_Babes_(1656),_is_the_classic_example_of_the_moral_children's_book._In_this_small_question-and-answer_manual,_the_first_children's_book_printed_in_America%22_71-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLibrary_of_Congress1982">Library of Congress 1982</a>, p. 26 "A book that the Library lacks, John Cotton's Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1656), is the classic example of the moral children's book. In this small question-and-answer manual, the first children's book printed in America". </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESpurgeon2012148_"first_children's_book_written_by_an_American"-72"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpurgeon2012148_%22first_children's_book_written_by_an_American%22_72-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSpurgeon2012">Spurgeon 2012</a>, p. 148 "first children's book written by an American". </li> <li id="cite_note-HigherEducation-73"><a href="#cite_ref-HigherEducation_73-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarbara_Kiefer,_Ohio_State_University-Columbus2010" class="citation web cs1">Barbara Kiefer, Ohio State University-Columbus (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073378569/student_view0/chapter3/historical_information.html">"Charlotte Huck's Children's Literature"</a>. Online Learning center. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%96%D7%9D" title="קטכיזם – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קטכיזם" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kl mw-list-item"><a href="https://kl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekismus" title="Katekismus – Kalaallisut" lang="kl" hreflang="kl" data-title="Katekismus" data-language-autonym="Kalaallisut" data-language-local-name="Kalaallisut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kalaallisut</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%AE%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D" title="კატეხიზმო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კატეხიზმო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Catecisme" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingua Franca Nova</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekizmus" title="Katekizmus – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Katekizmus" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekisma" title="Katekisma – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Katekisma" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soal_jawab_agama" title="Soal jawab agama – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Soal jawab agama" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechismus" title="Catechismus – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Catechismus" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%AD%E3%82%BA%E3%83%A0" title="カテキズム – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="カテキズム" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekisme" title="Katekisme – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Katekisme" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" 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class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catehism" title="Catehism – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Catehism" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katisismu" title="Katisismu – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Katisismu" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81" title="Катехизис – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Катехизис" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekizmi" title="Katekizmi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Katekizmi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katechizmus" title="Katechizmus – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Katechizmus" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekizem" title="Katekizem – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Katekizem" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Катекизам – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Катекизам" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekizam" title="Katekizam – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Katekizam" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katekismus" title="Katekismus – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Katekismus" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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