CatecheticaRA1102

The course seeks to assist students on articulating a theoretical foundation that may help them to better understand, and response to, the fundamental queries that underlie the practice of catechesis.

1. Situating catechesis within evangelization. 2. Short history of catechesis. 3. The identity of catechesis. 4. Catechesis as initiation and education to and in the faith. 5. Catechesis as ecclesial action and experience. 6. Catechesis and Christian community. 7. Catechesis as service. 8. Catechesis and liturgy. 9. The catechist. 10. Planning and methodological perspectives. 11. Catechesis and the family. 12. Catechesis with teenagers and young people. 13. Catechesis in schools. 14. Catechesis and cultural scenarios. 15. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

Required reading: Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. Directory for Catechesis. Vatican City: LEV, 2020. Suggested readings: Baumbach, Gerard. The Way of Catechesis: Exploring Our History, Renewing Our Ministry. Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2017; Kelly, Liam. Catechesis Revisited: Handing on Faith Today. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2000; Ospino, Hosffman. Interculturalism and Catechesis: A Catechist’s Guide to Responding to Cultural Diversity. New London: Twenty-Third Publications, 2017; Pauley, James. An Evangelizing Catechesis: Teaching from Your Encounter with Christ. Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 2020; Pedraza, Brian. Catechesis for the New Evangelization: Vatican II, John Paul II, and the Unity of Revelation and Experience. Washington: CUA Press, 2020; Vallabaraj, Jerome, and Antony Christy. Cultivating A Faith That Transforms: A Handbook of Fundamental Catechetics. Delhi: ISPCK, 2023.