The following is an excerpt from John MacLeod’s Scottish Theology in Relation to Church History, a volume compiled from his lectures at Westminster Seminary in April of 1939. The children of the Scottish Kirk, grateful for their catechism, rise up to call their mother blessed!
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“From the point of view of modern pedagogy [...]
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The pedagogical value of catechisizing
Posted in Catechesis on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The right questions
Posted in Catechesis on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I remember listening to a message by a prominent Reformed speaker. He contended that while our confessions and catechisms were right and useful, yet we tend to freeze-dry them and rigidly force them into cultural contexts were they are not always immediately relevant. He suggested that we need to be sensitive to the questions that the culture is [...]
The Westminster Divines on catechetical methodology
Posted in Catechesis on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here is an intriguing exchange among the Westminster Divines on the subject of how to catechize from the published minutes. O, to have been a fly on the wall!
“Rutherford ‘—on objections—(l.) It is said the Apostles did not use such a way. I think they did. ”Is then the Law of God of none effect ?” [...]
The breadth of catechizing
Posted in Catechesis, Evangelistic Catechesis on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a very insightful passage from George Herbert on effective catechizing. I think it illustrates many things – especially the extemporaneous and evangelistic side of catechizing. It is not as though rote memorization of form catechisms has no place. It certainly does with the baptized children of the church. Yet it is only one dimension of the [...]
