{"id":7,"date":"2025-07-01T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catechismus.net\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:20:13","slug":"%d0%be-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%81","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Martin Luther\u2019s Small Catechism<\/em> is a concise presentation of the fundamentals of the Christian faith answering to the question, what every Christian should know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luther himself, though a learned theologian and preacher, approached catechism like a child: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

he regularly “read” and “recited”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Ten Commandments, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Creed, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the Lord\u2019s Prayer. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Rote learning the Catechism by heart already in the Reformation time, and especially today, appeared not enough. Christian belief is a worldview and a way of life. The Catechism is not to be remembered, it should be privatized, grasped and beloved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Catechism should be a book that both children and adults want to return over and over, again and again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

If it is so, the Catechism wouldn\u2019t be a “collection of dogmas”, but a true Enchiridion<\/em> (from ancient Greek \u1f10\u03b3\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03af\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, “hand sword”), that is, a \u201ctool\u201d and a “weapon” for Christian education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This site explores best practices to work with Luther\u2019s Catechism in Christian formation of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martin Luther\u2019s Small Catechism is a concise presentation of the fundamentals of the Christian faith answering to the question, what every Christian should know. Luther himself, though a learned theologian and preacher, approached catechism like a child: he regularly “read” and “recited” the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord\u2019s Prayer. Rote learning the Catechism … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catechismus.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}