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Curated Catechesis

April 27, 2021 Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
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Catechesis is dead. Long live catechesis.

I’ll leave it to someone else to trace out how, exactly, catechesis died in the churches. I can at best hazard a few guesses based on intuition and anecdotes.

For example:

  • A bad habit of anti-intellectualism made adults turn on the rote education they received as children.

  • Or, a habit of over-intellectualism made clergy and professors invest more energy in reconciling with science and sociology than covering doctrinal and biblical basics.

  • Stifling apologetics caused distrust even of modest and ad hoc apologetics.

  • Claims for ultimate truth came to seem too exclusionary.

  • Congregational disinclination to pay for a pastor who continued to read and learn.

  • Pastoral disinclination to keep on growing.

  • So much Christendom as to make the faith seem self-evident, but not enough Christendom actually to sustain it.

  • Soccer practice and SAT cram sessions.

  • TV, internet, smartphones.

  • Any and all of the above.

At some point, it doesn’t even matter what caused it, only how to reverse it…

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Tags Thornbush Press, catechesis, Sermon on the Mount, Small Catechism
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