Catechism
(b) The Coptic Catechism Through the Ages
The Basic Principles of Catechism
Faith That Works Through Love
- What is faith?
- What is the importance of faith for unbelievers?
- Is it necessary to believe in the existence of God?
- Do we challenge the devil by faith?
- How was Abraham, the father of the fathers, armed?
- How was Peter armed while on the water?
- Did God send the law to prepare us to believe in it?
- Does faith abolish the gift of reason?
- What does faith ask of the Lord Christ?
- What did Moses ask of God in his first meeting with Him when He called him to serve?
- Why is God called Theos?
- Why do some people reject faith?
- How do we win those who reject the faith?
- Is faith incompatible with intellectual understanding and scientific research?
- What is the relationship between faith and scientific and spiritual knowledge?
- Which is first: knowledge or belief?
- How do we pay our debts with faith?
- What do the Fathers say about the majesty of faith?
- How is our faith strengthened?
- What is the relationship of faith to virtues?
- How do we proceed in true faith?
- How do we face all the worldly corruption?
- What role do tribulations play in faith?
- What is the role of faith in the virtues and acts of love?
- What is the role of faith in hope?
- How can we discern between the faith of demons and the faith of saints?
- Can a believer deviate and fall?
- How is faith established in our inner souls?
- Can we find God’s heroes of faith throughout the ages?
- Are the gifts of the people of faith the same for everyone?
- Does God have favorites among the believers?
- What are the signs of a living faith?
The Holy Bible
- Why the Holy Bible?
- Why do we need to study the Scriptures deeply?
- Is the Holy Bible inscribed in the pure heart and preserved in it?
- What is the believer’s view of the Holy Bible?
- What is the Church Fathers’ view of the Holy Bible?
- How does the Holy Bible invite us, along with all nations, to extol and praise?
- What is the purpose of the Holy Bible?
- How can we delight in the mysteries of the Holy Bible?
- How does the Holy Bible present the Lord to us as compassionate and just?
- Why is it said that “The Word of God endures forever?”
- What is the subject of preaching?
- How do heretics differ in their approach to the Holy Bible?
- Why are some people scandalized by the Old Testament?
- What is meant by the veil that lies on the hearts of some?
- How shall the veil be lifted from us?
- What is the interpretive approach of the School of Alexandria?
- What is the difference between Allegory and Typology?
- What is the Fathers’ stance on Allegory and Typology, after Origen?
- What is St. Clement’s justification for the use of allegorical interpretation?
- What is Origen’s justification for using allegorical interpretation?
- How does Origen explain allegorical interpretation?
- What are St. Cyril of Alexandria’s views regarding the interpretation of the Holy Bible?
Holy Tradition
- What does the word “tradition” mean?
- What is the material of tradition?
- What was the role of tradition in the apostolic age?
- How is apostolic tradition connected to the Gospel?
- How has the Holy Bible been preserved till today?
- How were the words and acts of Christ preserved?
- What does Papias say about tradition?
- What does St. Irenaeus say about tradition?
- How did tradition confront Gnosticism and the heresies of the second century?
- What does the scholar Tertullian say about tradition?
- What does St. Clement of Alexandria say about tradition?
- What does Origen say about tradition?
- What does St. Cyprian say about tradition?
- What does St. Gregory the bishop of Nyssa say about tradition?
- What does St. Basil the Great say about tradition?
- What does St. John Chrysostom say about tradition?
- What does St. Epiphanius the bishop of Salamis say about tradition?
- What does St. Augustine say about tradition?
- What is the relationship between Christian tradition and Jewish tradition?
- What are the important schools of Jewish tradition?
- What are the important books or works of Jewish tradition?
- What is our Lord Jesus’ attitude towards Jewish tradition?
- What is the Christian Church’s attitude towards Jewish tradition?
- Has the life of the Church taken anything from holy tradition?
- Has ethical teaching taken anything from holy tradition?
- Has Church worship taken anything from holy tradition?
- Have the liturgies taken anything from holy tradition?
- Have the rites taken anything from holy tradition?
- What is the responsibility of the clergy and the laity in preserving holy tradition and its continuity?
- What is the role of the laity in preserving the traditional life of the Church?
- How can we hold fast to the tradition of the Church in contemporary life?
- What does tradition mean in the ecumenical movement of the Church?