Lessons on the Way Author:Percy Dearmer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Subjects: Catechetics Theology, Doctrinal Philosophy / Epistemology Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Catechisms Religion / Christian Education / General Religion / Edu... more »cation Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Christology Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTORY -- THE CATECHISM Note. -- The Lessons take the English Church Catechism as their basis. For those who use some other basis the first Lesson, therefore, will be unnecessary in the last point. But the first three points will hold good, and the Lessons, as a whole, will be found suitable for all teachers. I. -- " Catechism " IF you look hard at this word, you may see another word in it. Cat-echism : not " cat," but " echo," is the word. You call out something, and the sound comes rumbling back in a queer way -- an echo, which is the Greek for this peculiar sort of sound, and almost the same as the Greek word for any sort of sound, from which " Catechism " comes. So to " catechise " is to sound and sound again, to go on making noises in somebody's ears till they understand. That is a way of teaching them anything. Thus, to catechise came to mean to teach, and then especially to teach religion. St. Luke uses the word in the preface to his Gospel, when he tells Theophilus that he has written this account of the life of Jesus, in order that Theophilus may know the certainty concerning the things wherein he was " catechised," for that is the word St. Luke uses in the Greek language in which he wrote [L...« less