catechisms
Religious instruction manuals
Catechisms are summaries of religious doctrine in question-and-answer format, used for instruction.
The form originated in Christian education, teaching fundamental beliefs through memorized responses: The children recited their catechisms.
By extension, any rote series of questions and answers on a subject: the catechism of party loyalty.
The singular catechism refers to both the document and the practice of learning it.
Profession of instructing others
- educationSystematic development of mind
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- schoolingFormal education received
tutoring · memorization · recitation · study · training · discipleship · mentorship · formation
Unchallengeable official beliefs
- creedStatement of belief
- tenetHeld principle or doctrine
- preceptRule governing behavior
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
canon · theology · teaching · belief · faith · confession · articles · commandments
Trust without proof
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- prayerAddress to deity
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- liturgyFormal worship structure
baptism · communion · confirmation · penance · salvation · grace · sin · redemption
Requests for information
- answersReactions to queries
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- memorizationCommitting information to recall
- recitationOral delivery from memory
primer · manual · handbook · compendium · summary · outline · lessons · chapters
teaching
Profession of instructing others
- educationSystematic development of mind
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
schooling · tutoring · memorization · recitation · study · training · discipleship · mentorship · formation · confirmation
dogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
orthodoxy · canon · theology · teaching · belief · faith · confession · articles · commandments · sacraments
faith
Trust without proof
liturgy · baptism · communion · confirmation · penance · salvation · grace · sin · redemption · trinity
questions
Requests for information
- answersReactions to queries
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- memorizationCommitting information to recall
recitation · primer · manual · handbook · compendium · summary · outline · lessons · chapters · sections
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- Puritan writingsjeremiads, jeremiad, funeral sermon, primers, meditations
- beliefsbelief, beliefs, creed, creeds, faith
- ProtestantismLutheran, Protestantism, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian
- Christian ethicsChristian morality, Christian values, divine law, Christian virtues, natural law
- church suppliesBible, hymnal, hymnals, prayer books, prayer book
catechismssermons
Religious talks to congregations
homilies · lectures · testimonies · mystical experience · meditations
catechismsheresies
Beliefs opposing official doctrine
apostasies · agnosticism · freethinking · dissent · heterodoxies
- Heidelberg CatechismReformed statement of faith
- catechism classFormal instruction in faith
- Catholic catechismChurch's doctrinal instruction text