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

In his first Sermon, on the fourth question of our Shorter Catechism, he expresses himself in a most elegant and rapturous manner.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)