Kleiner Katechismus (English spelling)

…It was written by taking the tradition of faith education for believers from the early days of the Christian Church and applying it to the Reformation's standpoint of Bible-centered, God-centered, and faith-centered. Since 1527, Luther, who was concerned by the state of faith ignorance among believers during his tour of churches in the Electorate of Saxony, has been explaining baptism and the Eucharist in addition to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and other things he had been preaching and writing for the past 10 years. The Small Catechism (Kleiner Katechismus) and the Larger Catechism (Grosser Katechismus) are summaries of his sermons. The former is the foundation for baptism preparation and faith education for the youth, and was first translated into Japanese in 1895. …

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…キリスト教会初期以来の信徒信仰教育の伝統を，聖書中心，神中心，信仰中心の宗教改革的立場により改めて生かして書かれた。1527年以来，ザクセン選帝侯領内の教会巡察によって信徒の信仰的な無知ともいえる状態を見て憂慮したルターが，〈十誡〉〈使徒信条〉〈主の祈り〉など10年来説教や著作で解説してきたものに加え，洗礼と聖餐についても解説して，問答形式にしたものが《小教理問答Kleiner Katechismus》，説教の要約の形にしたものが《大教理問答Grosser Katechismus》である。前者は洗礼準備教育，青少年信仰教育の土台となるので日本でも1895年に初訳されている。…

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