Catechism milk

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Catechism milk is the title of an extensive religious and literary work by the Evangelical Lutheran theologian Johann Conrad Dannhauer , which has existed in various editions from 1642 onwards.

Based on the letters of the apostles , Dannhauer uses the metaphor of milk , which feeds a child instead of solid food , for his explanation of the ecclesiastical catechism . He is referring to Peter ( 1st letter of Peter 2.2)

"And 1 be eager for the sensible pure milk as the 2 children now born , so that you may grow through it,"
( 1 letter to the Hebrews 5:12, 13) ( 2 Gospel according to Matthew 18 : 3, 4.5)

and on Paul ( 1st letter of Paul to the Corinthians 3,1.2)

“And I, dear brothers, could not speak to you as clergy, but as with fleshly, 1 as with young children in Christ.”
( 1 Gospel according to John 16.12)
“I gave you milk to drink, and not food; because you could not yet. You can't even now. "

Following Dannhauer, various other theologians used or varied the title catechism milk for their writings, e.g. B. Adam Dögen for Lac Catecheticum: Lautere Geistliche Catechismus-Milch (1644), Michael Ritthaler for Biblische Catechismus-Milch (1680) or Christian Moritz Kromayer for Reasonable, Lautere Catechismus-Milch (1727).

The writer and satirist Karl Julius Weber said of his high school days around 1785: "The bowl of catechism milk and the potato fattening of the hymnbook stood next to the pumpernickel of Latin grammar, vocabulary and Seybold's proverbs."

An aphorism by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is entitled Catechism Milk .

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