Shorter Catechism

American  

noun

1. one of the two catechisms established by the Westminster Assembly in 1647, used chiefly in Presbyterian churches.

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Shorter Catechism British  

noun

1. Presbyterian Church the more widely used and influential of two catechisms of religious instruction drawn up in 1647

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Shorter Catechism

And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the "Shorter Catechism" went with them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without batting an eye I quoted from the Shorter Catechism in my best Sunday school voice: “‘God is a Spirit, Infinite, Eternal and Unchangeable.’”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

I suppose that about that age I began to strengthen his cruel fear by my antipathy to the kirk services and my real and unfortunate inability to learn the Shorter Catechism.

From An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

That Shorter Catechism which I took as being so typical of Scotland, was yet composed in the city of Westminster.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

My grandmother, alert, clear, decided on all doctrinal points, argumentative, with all her wits fine-edged by the Shorter Catechism, could not abide the least haziness of outline in religious belief.

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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