With this knowledge ideas as to how best material should be presented in a text books has grown considerably. Criticism of the catechism for its question and answer format, and the terms used may be legitimate, but it is hardly relevant to the text in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. What is remarkable is that a text with these flaws should continue to be in print in a Millennium edition. Few textbooks can have had such a lasting history. 17 Notes 1.
Details are also easily available in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed.
F. L. Cross. See also The New Catholic Encyclopedia , both the article on catechisms and that on the Council of Trent. Auger is treated in Marthaler, p. 50. 5. For Bellarmine see The Word Dictionary of the Christian Church , and the detailed treatment in J. Broderick. For the text in question see A Shorte Catechisme of Card Bellarmine illuftrated with the Images.