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Teaching by question and answer on the
Socratic method, but chiefly as a means of
instructing children in the basics of the
Christian creed. A person being instructed in
this way in preparation for baptism or
confirmation is called a catechumen. A form
of catechism was used for the catechumens in
the early Christian church. Little books of
catechism became numerous at the Reformation.
Luther published simple catechisms for
children and uneducated people, and a larger
catechism for the use of teachers. The
popular Roman Catholic catechism was that of
Peter Canisius 1555; that with the widest
circulation now is the `Explanatory Catechism
of Christian Doctrine'. Protestant catechisms
include Calvin's Geneva Catechism 1537; that
composed by Cranmer and Ridley with additions
by Overall 1549-1661, incorporated in the
Book of Common Prayer; the Presbyterian
Catechism 1647-48; and the Evangelical Free
Church Catechism 1898.