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title: 'Catechetical Instruction Before the Reformation'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Williams Proudfit'
date: 1854-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Catechism'
- 'Education'
- 'Ancient and Medieval Church History'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 7'
- 'Deuteronomy 6'
- 'Joel 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/proudfit-1854-catechetical-instruction-before-the-reformation
---

# Catechetical Instruction Before the Reformation

Two essays arguing the church’s duty in educating children: children included in the covenant (Gen. 7), and the historic primacy of oral catechetical instruction before the Reformation.

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