Ligon Duncan on Evangelizing through Catechesis [Podcast]

“Doctrine is absolutely essential to Christianity. We live in a day where story is preferred to doctrine. But doctrine and story in the Bible are not competitors or enemies; they are complements and friends. It’s not doctrine or story, it’s doctrine and story. And, very often in the Bible, the doctrine is conveyed through story, and the story enfleshes the doctrine.” — Ligon Duncan Listen Now

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The New City Catechism
Westminister Shorter Catechism

As Tim Keller writes in its Introduction, "The New City Catechism is based on and adapted from Calvin’s Geneva Catechism, the Westminster Shorter and Larger catechisms, and especially the Heidelberg Catechism." Calvin's Geneva Catechism and the Heidelberg Catechism were used in sixteenth and seventeenth century England to instruct grammar school and university students in the Christian faith and to prepare candidates for ordination. As J.I. Packer has pointed out, the Westminister Larger and Shorter Catechism are a part of our Anglican heritage. The English theologians and laymen who were involved in the drafting of these two catechism were clergy and members of the Church of England. In evangelizing through catechesis, The New City Catechism and the Westminster Shorter Catechism are in step with the Holy Scriptures, the historic Anglican formularies and the central Anglican theological tradition whereas To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism, the ACNA's catechism, is not. It has more in common with the Catechism of the Catholic Church than the foundational documents of authentic historic Anglicanism.