Christian teaching

Christian doctrine is a term for church religious instruction , which, apart from religious services and school religious instruction, was given by the pastor or a catechist . The term was also used in the Catholic Church , but was specially formulated by Lutheran theologians in the 19th century and experienced its greatest heyday, especially in the area of ​​the former German Democratic Republic , not least through the educational journal Die Christenlehre . This basically involves religious instruction, which is given to children and young people in different age groups depending on the region.

history

In the Catholic Church, "Christian teaching" was given on certain occasions, such as processions and pilgrimages. The very term reveals that it was a dogmatic and moral instruction and that the doctrine of Christianity was developed. In the 19th century, Lutheran clergymen closely related to the Inner Mission ( Gerhard von Zezschwitz , Willibald Beyschlag ) took up the term and thus created a form of church education. In 1948 Herwig Hafa founded the journal Die Christenlehre . In West Germany, the term Christian teaching was used to describe an event following the confirmation class .

In Württemberg u. a. the courses “religious instruction for adults” largely replaced the “Christian teaching”.

Important representatives of Christian doctrine

In the DDR

• Evangelical University of Moritzburg
• Matthias Roessler
• Jörg Erb
• Dieter Reiher

Catholic Church

• Eberhard von Dienheim
• Vix pervenit (encyclical)
• Brotherhood of the Holy Christian Teaching under Johann Michael Strickner

literature

• Law of the Church in Anhalt
• Information on a website of the municipality of Prenzlauer Berg.
• materials
• Leo Wolpert : Five minutes of Christian teaching . Three series of catechism readings, Regensburg, Verlag F. Pustet 1949.
• Gerhard von Zezschwitz : The Christian teaching in context. (Leipzig 1880, 2nd edition, 4 sections, 1883–1888).
• Willibald Beyschlag : Doctrine of Christians on the basis of the Small Lutheran Catechism : Auxiliary book for teaching confirmation of teaching and for self-teaching by adults. Hall a. S .: Strien, 1900.
• Wilhelm Burger (Hrsg.): Handbook for the religious and moral instruction of young people . In advanced training schools, Christian teaching and youth clubs. First volume: Christian Life Studies, Herder Freiburg 1922.
• Wolfgang Nastainczyk : Christian teaching . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, Sp. 1104 .
• Martin Steinhäuser: Article Christian doctrine. in: The scientific-religious-pedagogical lexicon.