The Westminster Shorter Catechism (Qs. 1–38)

James J. Cassidy

Jim Cassidy is the pastor of South Austin Presbyterian Church. He graduated in 2014 from Westminster Theological Seminary with the Ph.D in systematic theology writing on the theology of Karl Barth. He is the author of God’s Time For Us: Barth on the Reconciliation of Eternity and Time in Jesus Christ (Lexham Press).

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Jim Cassidy teaches the basics of Christian doctrine through the introductory catechism formulated at the Westminster Assembly (1643–1653).

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INTRODUCTION AND THE DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

Week 1: Introduction, Man’s Chief End, and Holy Scripture 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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1. What is the chief end of man?

2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? / 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?

THE DOCTRINE OF GOD

Week 2: The Trinity and the Divine Decrees 5 Topics | 1 Quiz

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4. What is God?

5. Are there more Gods than one?

6. How many persons are there in the Godhead?

7. What are the decrees of God?

8. How doth God execute his decrees?

Week 3: Works of Creation and Providence and the Covenant of Works 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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9. What is the work of creation?

10. How did God create man?

11. What are God’s works of providence?

12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?

THE DOCTRINE OF MAN

Week 4: The Fall and Original Sin 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

14. What is sin?

15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?

16. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?

Week 5: Original Sin and the Divine Curse 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?

18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?

19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?

THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST

Week 6: The Covenant of Grace, Its Mediator, and His Threefold Office 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?

21. Who is the redeemer of God’s elect?

22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

23. What offices doth Christ execute as our redeemer?

Week 7: His Threefold Office and Work in the Estates of Humiliation and Exaltation 5 Topics | 1 Quiz

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24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?

25. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?

26. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?

27. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?

28. Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?

THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Week 8: Application of the Benefits of Christ’s Work, Union with Christ, and Effectual Calling 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?

31. What is effectual calling?

32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?

Week 9: Justification, Adoption, and Sanctification 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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33. What is justification?

34. What is adoption?

35. What is sanctification?

Week 10: Other Benefits of Christ’s Work 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?

37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

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