catechism
意味一覧 (2件)
教理問答
解説 Definition
キリスト教などの教理を、質問と答えの形で学ばせる本や一連の教えを指す語。子どもや入信者への宗教教育で使われ、基本的な信仰内容を暗記・確認する文脈によく出ます。
A catechism is a book or set of lessons that teaches the basic beliefs of Christianity or another religion through questions and answers. It is often used in religious education for children or new members of the faith. The word often suggests learning, memorizing, and checking important points of belief, not just reading a general religious book.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
catechism は catechize「問答形式で教える」と一緒に覚えるとよい語です。-ism は system や doctrine のように、考えや教えの体系を表す語にも出ます。つまり「質問と答えで教理を体系的に学ぶもの」が中心イメージです。単なる religious book ではなく、learn the catechism, study the catechism のように、宗教教育で暗記・確認する教本として使われます。
It helps to learn catechism together with catechize, which means "to teach by questions and answers." The ending -ism often appears in words for a system of thought or teaching, like a doctrine. So catechism gives the idea of a structured set of religious teaching learned through question-and-answer practice.
例文
The children studied the catechism before their first communion class.
子どもたちは初聖体の授業の前に教理問答を学んだ。
He had to memorize parts of the catechism as part of his religious education.
彼は宗教教育の一環として教理問答の一部を暗記しなければならなかった。
The museum displayed a seventeenth-century catechism used to teach new believers.
その博物館には、新しい信者を教えるために使われた17世紀の教理問答が展示されていた。
要理問答
(意味 2)解説 Definition
宗教的教義を質問と答えの形式で説く教科書。カトリック信仰の基本を学ぶための教育的文書。
A catechism is a book or set of lessons that teaches the main beliefs of the Christian religion, often in a question-and-answer form. It is commonly used for religious instruction, especially for children or new learners. The word can also be used more broadly for a fixed set of basic principles.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
catechism は、特にカトリックなどで信仰の要点を質問と答えの形に整理した宗教教材として覚えるとよいです。catechize「問答で教える」と結びつけ、teacher asks, learner answers という形式を核にします。learn the catechism, Catholic catechism のように、子どもや入信者が基本教義を暗記・確認する文書や一連の教えを指す語です。
Learn it with `catechize`, which means teaching by question and answer. A `catechism` is organized religious teaching, often in fixed questions and answers. Think of phrases like `learn the catechism` or `Catholic catechism`.
例文
The catechism is used to teach children about Christian beliefs.
要理問答はキリスト教の信念について子供たちに教えるために使用される。
He memorized passages from the catechism during his religious education.
彼は宗教教育中に要理問答の節を暗記した。
The Catholic catechism outlines the church's official doctrines.
カトリック要理問答は教会の公式教義を概説している。
catechism の語源・成り立ち Etymology
教会ラテン語 catechismus を経て、ギリシャ語 katēkhismos「口頭で教えること」に由来。kata-「下へ」と ēkhein「響く」が背景にあり、声で教えを伝える感覚を持つ。
Catechism comes from Church Latin catechismus, which came from Greek katekhismos, meaning "oral teaching" or "instruction by word of mouth." In the background are kata-, meaning "down," and ekhein, meaning "to sound," suggesting the idea of teaching by making the words sound out.
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