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- Title
THE SCIENCE OF SALVATION: FRENCH DIOCESAN CATECHISMS AND CATHOLIC REFORM (1650-1800).
- Authors
Carter, Karen E.
- Abstract
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, catechism played a vital role in the Catholic Reformation. During this period bishops issued new catechisms for their dioceses to ensure that the truths of the Catholic religion would be taught with exactness. This essay examines these catechisms and analyzes the bishops' measures to establish the catechism as a set of step-by-step instructions designed to teach children correct Catholic behavior and basic Catholic principles. Bishops believed the material in their catechisms, which they termed the "science of salvation," would ensure orthodoxy and orthopraxy in each new generation of Catholic believers.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH catechisms; COUNTER-Reformation; BISHOPS; CHRISTIAN education; CATHOLIC Church doctrines; CATHOLIC Church history, 1500-; SALVATION in Christianity; FRENCH church history; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Catholic Historical Review, 2010, Vol 96, Issue 2, p234
- ISSN
0008-8080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cat.0.0720