Andrew Reeves, Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England: The Creed and Articles of Faith (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 218pp. ISBN: 9789004294431

Abstract

This chapter reviews the book Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England: The Creed and Articles of Faith (2015), by Andrew Reeves. The book explores how the church ensured that laymen and women in the thirteenth century acquired at least a basic understanding of the doctrines of the Christian religion as exemplified in the Apostles Creed and Articles of Faith. In particular, Reeves examines the nature and extent of the transmission of the theological education developed in the Schools, particularly of Paris, to local parish priests and to their parishioners in the thirteenth century. The focus is on the period between the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 and 1281. The author also highlights the emphasis placed by thirteenth-century pastoral care on sin and its remedies.