Examples of using Catechisms in English and their translations into Indonesian
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Doctrine, Catechisms, and other teaching for new Christians.
One of the church's most acclaimed and best beloved catechisms is the Heidelberg Catechism.
Children's Ministry Tip:Provide quality resources for families such as worship guides for family devotions and catechisms.
The catechisms provided easy-to-understand instructional and devotional material on the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, The Lord's Prayer, baptism, and the Lord's Supper.
The two collaborators referred to existing catechetical literature, and especially relied on the catechisms of Calvin and of John Lasco.
For spiritual training, many parents have given themselves to child catechisms, Bible memory, daily family devotions, as well as involvement in a Bible preaching church.
The process of becoming a Mason requires learning and demonstrating Masonic values,memorizing Masonic catechisms, and much more.
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.
It was brought back to God's Word and the fruit of that greatwork of the Spirit continues to guide us through our confessions and catechisms.
When dealing with matters of faith would it not beuseful to follow the official terminology of standard catechisms to avoid confusion in the mind of the readers of TLIG?
The great idea running through all the catechisms should be that the later ones should grow out of the earlier ones, and that the children should not be confused by differently worded answers to the same questions.
It was expected that the universal Catechism would serve as a source and template for inculturated national catechisms.
It is instead a source on which to base such catechisms(e.g. Youcat and the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults) and other expositions of Catholic doctrine, called a"major catechism.
Only those sects exhibit a certain consistency in which private judgment is a dead letter andthe teaching is carried on according to confessions and catechisms by a trained clergy.
Prayer books for public or private use, and catechisms or other catechetical materials(or their translations) require the bishop's permission for publication(Code of Canon Law, 826, 827.1).
Also, those who insist that infallible DEFINITIONS must be interpreted by non-infallible statements(e.g.,from theologians, catechisms, etc.) are denying the whole purpose of the Chair of Peter.
As stated in the Apostolic Constitution Fidei depositum,[12] with which its publication was ordered,"that it may be a sure and authentic reference text for teaching catholic doctrine andparticularly for preparing local catechisms.".
The third catechism, for those who have made their first Communion, should in like manner embody the contents of the first and second catechisms, and add instruction belonging to the third stage mentioned above.
During the Protestant Reformation, the popular tracts and catechisms of Martin Luther, John Calvin and other Reformers were sold in areas controlled by Protestant monarchs, who determined the faith in their region see: Cuius regio, eius religio.
OBJECTION- If it is true that there is no such thing as baptism of desire or baptism of blood, then why didn't any pope come out andcondemn these theories as they were appearing in so many catechisms in the late 1800's and following?
The obvious inconvenience of this bewildering multiplicity of Catechisms occupied the attention of the Fathers of the Vatican Council, the great majority of whom were agreed as to the desirability of having a uniform small Catechism for the faithful all over the world.
As stated in the apostolic constitution Fidei depositum, with which its publication was ordered, it was given so"that it may be a sure and authentic reference text for teaching Catholic doctrine andparticularly for preparing local catechisms.
His reforming work during subsequent years included the writing of the Small and Large Catechisms, sermon books, more than a dozen hymns, over 100 volumes of tracts, treatises, biblical commentaries, thousands of letters, and the translation of the whole Bible into German.
In Janssen's great"History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages" will be found a complete refutation of the popular notion that the Protestant Reformers, and especially Luther,were the first to revive catechetical instruction and to print catechisms.
One of these publicly avowed that he had understood more of thedoctrine of salvation from the answers of the little children in their catechisms than by all the disputations which he had ever heard(Vccembecius, Oratie de Waldeflsibus et Albigensibus Christianis, 4).
Though Bellarmine's Catechism was largely followed as a model all over the world, yet, owing to the modifications introduced in diocesan editions, it came to pass in the course of time that almost every diocese had its own Catechism, differing in many respects from the Catechisms of other dioceses.
A new catechism, based upon Bellarmine's Catechism and other catechisms of approved value, was to be drawn up in Latin, and was to be translated into the different vernaculars with the authority of the bishops, who were empowered to make such additions as they might think fit;
Soon God provided him sufficient money through Mummuth and some other men so he could leave England and go to Germany, where Martin Luther had just finished translating the New Testament into German(1521),and was working on many tracts and catechisms and a translation of the entire Bible.
The great value and beauty of this gift are confirmed above all by the extensive and positive reception of the Catechism among Bishops, to whom it was primarily addressed as a sure and authentic reference text for teaching Catholic doctrine and, in particular, for formulating local catechisms.