“…By focusing on the fundamentals, Luther employs this basic question to get at the nature of the subject at hand. As an educator, he favors this question that, as Timothy Wengert states it, “invited simple paraphrase of the text in question rather than complicated explanation, thus implying that the catechism's texts were not obscure and needed simply to be put in other words for proper understanding” (2016, p. 206). Without rendering the theological content void of meaning, Luther makes it accessible to all students.…”
Section: Step 2: Teach Them To Understand Itmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The fourth question to each sacrament deals with the way they function in the believer's life: involving a daily drowning of the old creature and rising of the new in baptism … and the proper inward preparation of faith … in the Supper. This practical application continues in the prayers for morning, evening and mealtimes … (2016, p. 207).…”
Section: Step 3: a Richer And Fuller Understandingmentioning
Martin Luther is primarily known as a pastor and theologian of the 16th century Reformation. However, he was also a pedagogue passionate about educational reforms that united the spiritual life with the daily lived life. Believing that education served the purpose of equipping students for a life in service of one's neighbor, Luther took a practical and spiritual approach to critically engage content and even left space for teachers to differentiate based on their students' needs. This article provides a close look at the pedagogy and curriculum Luther outlines in the introduction to his Small Catechism and seeks to provide a creative adaptation to the contemporary theological/religious classroom. In the hopes that Luther's method can be of help in a variety of settings and spiritual traditions, the primary teaching method is driven by inquiry and the catechetical question “what is this?”
“…By focusing on the fundamentals, Luther employs this basic question to get at the nature of the subject at hand. As an educator, he favors this question that, as Timothy Wengert states it, “invited simple paraphrase of the text in question rather than complicated explanation, thus implying that the catechism's texts were not obscure and needed simply to be put in other words for proper understanding” (2016, p. 206). Without rendering the theological content void of meaning, Luther makes it accessible to all students.…”
Section: Step 2: Teach Them To Understand Itmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The fourth question to each sacrament deals with the way they function in the believer's life: involving a daily drowning of the old creature and rising of the new in baptism … and the proper inward preparation of faith … in the Supper. This practical application continues in the prayers for morning, evening and mealtimes … (2016, p. 207).…”
Section: Step 3: a Richer And Fuller Understandingmentioning
Martin Luther is primarily known as a pastor and theologian of the 16th century Reformation. However, he was also a pedagogue passionate about educational reforms that united the spiritual life with the daily lived life. Believing that education served the purpose of equipping students for a life in service of one's neighbor, Luther took a practical and spiritual approach to critically engage content and even left space for teachers to differentiate based on their students' needs. This article provides a close look at the pedagogy and curriculum Luther outlines in the introduction to his Small Catechism and seeks to provide a creative adaptation to the contemporary theological/religious classroom. In the hopes that Luther's method can be of help in a variety of settings and spiritual traditions, the primary teaching method is driven by inquiry and the catechetical question “what is this?”
The Ten Commandments (hereafter Decalogue) declare concise yet comprehensive human duties towards God and between humans. After outlining the Decalogue’s variable medieval use, this chapter deploys its twofold structure to consider Reformation-era interpretations of its commands regarding worship (the first table) and society (the second table). Between these, the role of the Decalogue in Reformation discourses about salvation (the uses of the law) is discussed. Reformation legacies are then outlined through comparison between these early and late modern treatments of the Decalogue. It is argued that the Protestant reformers revisited and reshaped problematic aspects of medieval faith and practice by means of the Decalogue, and that an insistent biblicism is key to making sense of their impact. The Protestant Reformation(s) enabled the Decalogue’s prominence, and in turn its pervasive influence, in modernity.
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