Transforming Christian education and discipleship in the Church
Many Christians today never receive a foundational introduction to the faith. As a result, they never really grow in the Christian life. They remain, as St. Paul put it, like little children, “tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine” (Eph. 4:4).
The Catechesis Institute is a research and teaching center dedicated to retrieving classical models of church-based education for a post-Christendom world. Rooted in the Anglican tradition, with an ecumenical scope, the Catechesis Institute provides resources, training, and networking for pastors, scholars, and teachers at any level.
Above all, we seek a widespread renewal of the church through biblical, historical, and theological models of teaching and forming the faithful.
What is a Catechumenate? This video, produced by Fr. Ryan Jones, explains the vision for a 21st-century catechumenate.
“Where wise catechesis has flourished, the church has flourished.”
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Resources
Resources
The Catechesis Institute houses hundreds of digital, audio, and print resources related to catechesis. Whether you are looking for guides to begin a catechetical ministry or detailed bibliographies for advanced research—or anything in between—we have much to offer.
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Events
The Catechesis Institute sponsors a variety of conferences, lectures, workshops, and other events where scholars and practitioners can learn together.
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Rowan Williams on freedom from the passions: “The light of the resurrection is not only what allows us to see ourselves a bit more clearly…. It is what allows us to see the entire landscape of God’s creating activity in the radiance of Christ’s presence in the Spirit. This landscape is, by God’s grace, show to us as our homeland; it is where we belong. And this is what the life of apatheia, the life of freedom from the tyranny of ‘passion’, is finally about; living in the joyful and grateful awareness of God’s perspective on the creation God loves and transfigures; praying and labouring day by day for that inch-by-inch growth in clarity, freedom, charity; growing in the right kind of detachment that lets us see our muddled lives embraced and healed in Jesus, the author and the pioneer of our faithfulness.”