This is a memory course, laying the foundation for subsequent doctrinal studies. Students memorize on-line the 107 articles of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Concurrently, they memorize 107 Bible passages on which these important articles of doctrine are based. The Westminster Assembly was convened by the British Parliament in 1643 to produce the Longer and Shorter Catechisms. To quote the Encyclopedia Americana, the Westminster Confession of Faith is "the most widely influential Protestant theological formula in the English-speaking world."