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#49 – A Conversation with Dr. Ligon Duncan

Knowing Faith

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The Importance of Catechism in the Church

The catechism is a way of summarizing basic Christian doctrine. Baptist and Presbyterians were doing this in the 17th century, 18th century,. 19th century, and then the 20th century hits. We actually require seminary students who come to RTS to memorize the shorter catechism. And even before people fully understand all that a catechism question means, it supplies them with the language, the categories where they can understand it later.

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