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A Short Biography of Shorter Catechism

Tome Name:

Shorter Catechism

Early Name:

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Other Names:

Created:

1640





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The parents and the church would use the shorter catechism to train their children in the ways of the Lord.

The Shorter Catechism was not suitable for young children or those of a weak capacity. Various other catechisms were created for this purpose, including the Mother's Catechism.

First applied to them in the sixteenth century, beginning with Martin Luther's 1529 publications.

Some traditionalist Catholics argue that statements made in CCC - Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church - conflict with past Catholic teachings on many topics, and that it teaches Gnosticism, promotes the theory of evolution, exonerates the Jewish people and presents them as still in a covenantal relationship with God, favours indifferentism (the belief that religions are equal), false ecumenism (cooperation with non-Catholic Christians), secular collaboration and compromise, homosexuality and internationalism.