The catechistic method.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

She said all that in a sort of distracted, catechistic manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petty Pewter Gods]

It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference

These catechistic exchanges very often teach standard or dogmatic answers to hypothetical questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

And then there's a faith-based method of reasoning, which basically is more catechistic than empiric -- that is, instead of facts leading to conclusions, conclusions lead to facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Green: Climategate! Another Diversion From "Liberal" Science] Reference

Now you just need to cook up some line about honoring the logic of the feast for the boys 'sake, part of that catechistic education after all, about presenting gifts that recognize a person's nature, and you're golden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Little Christmas. Give books.] Reference

Embracing the new orthodoxy with almost catechistic devotion, they insisted on the importance of construing each constitutional provision according to the presumed intentions of the Framers, no matter how disruptive or radical the consequences might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rehnquist the Great?] Reference

A "Sunday School" sophistication is not enough … neither is a catechistic memorized list of propositions and answers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus Creed] Reference

The catechistic terrors of the Last Day had less reality for him than the present honor and glory appertaining to the traveled importer of a new game.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tennessee mountains,] Reference

Sister Rita Agnes, or whoever that year was in charge of our catechistic upbringing, would ask: "If the Communists came this minute into our classroom and demanded that ten students be selected to be shot on the playground so that all the others could live, who would volunteer?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Reference

Not surprisingly, as all manner of commentators have rushed to join the counterinsurgency camp, many COIN-related discussions, and many COIN-related articles and policy papers and the like, might frustrate outside readers - maybe even anger them - with their catechistic certitude that if the military would follow COIN doctrine, then the wars will end well.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Cats similarly dismissed the catechistic distinctions between capitalism and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commanding Heights] Reference