(1) Perhaps Wood insists on finding such an explicit blueprint for Christian life in Tolkien's book because his primary intention is catechetical , but I suspect such an approach is counterproductive even in this sphere.(2) This book could be used as the center of a course on the church, or as a text for a catechetical or adult enrichment course.(3) In order to facilitate this understanding, I am mandating today that every priest or deacon who preaches on the first two Sundays in Lent of 2005 is to present a catechetical homily on conscience.(4) Ulysses is rich in liturgical references, Latin phrases, and catechetical stylistics.(5) MacCulloch further claims that in the wake of Protestant catechetical efforts, ‘Roman Catholics followed suit,’ even though catechisms and catechetical instruction preceded the Reformation.(6) In its catechetical form, apologetic content, moralistic tone, and anti-ritual polemicism, the Buddhist Catechism suspiciously echoes nineteenth-century Protestant polemics against Roman Catholicism.(7) If this means that the theological becomes more catechetical , it must also mean that catechesis becomes more theological, featuring special attention to the doctrine and the content of the faith.(8) The church's catechetical instruction takes many forms, but the most succinct statement of Christian belief, often the primary basis for catechesis, is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed.(9) They rightly insist that the university is not a catechetical school and they are not propagandists.(10) Stories come first, then theological and catechetical systematization, which in turn enable us to critique the stories.(11) This was a collection of thirteen catechetical Homilies, designed to restore Roman Catholic understanding and practice.(12) We won't have a theological culture schooled in the basics, a catechetical renewal, until the church decides to pay for it.(13) George Weigel calls it a ‘pastoral and catechetical failure,’ as though the encyclical's deficiencies were merely those of tone or effective communication.(14) In catechesis, this meant helping them learn the basic doctrines and practices of the faith through an intensive program of catechetical instruction.(15) In a mostly immigrant church, the priest was one of the very few well-educated people in the community, and certainly almost the only one with a more than catechetical knowledge of religion.(16) It addresses traditional catechetical topics, such as Christ's incarnation, death and resurrection, as well as contemporary concerns, such as the problem of evil, faith and science, and Christianity's relation to other religions.
