Reading catechisms, teaching religion / by Lee Palmer Wandel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wandel, Lee Palmer, author.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 250.

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 11.

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; Volume 250

Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catechisms--History--16th century.

Catechisms.

Catechetics--Europe--History--16th century.

Catechetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians’, Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity and the media through which that knowledge was articulated and communicated. Christians had shared a sense that knowledge might come through visions, images, liturgy; catechisms taught that knowledge of ‘Christianity’ began with texts printed on a page. Second, codicil catechisms sought not simply to dissolve the material distinction between codex and person, but to teach catechumens to see specific words together as texts. The pages of catechisms were visual—they confound precisely that constructed modern bipolarity, word/image, or, conversely, that modern bipolarity obscures what sixteenth-century catechisms sought to do.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 The Codex in the Hand

2 Belief

3 Commandments

4 Prayer

5 Sacraments

6 Images

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30520-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004305205 DOI