catechumen
noun
a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
catechumenal
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a word derived from
catechumen.
Example Sentences
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Compare the work of the Sunday School of to-day with the catechumenal instruction of the early Christians.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Pantaenus, a converted Greek Stoic, who became head of the catechumenal instruction at Alexandria, in 179 A.D., brought to the training of future Christian leaders the strength of Greek learning and Greek philosophic thought.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
This personal instruction became common everywhere in the early Church, and the training was known as catechumenal, that is, rudimentary, instruction.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Two sets of catechumenal lectures have survived, which give an idea as to the nature of the instruction.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
