Teaching As A Sacramental Act

Author : Mary Elizabeth Moore
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829820812

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Teaching as a Sacramental Act by Mary Elizabeth Moore Pdf

Moore asserts that Christian vocation, and the teaching vocation in particular, can be best understood as sacramental, mediating the grace of God through ordinary creation for the sanctification of human life and the well-being of all creation. She develops her argument through three important factors: a historical-theological analysis of the Christian sacraments and sacramentality; a phenomenological study of teaching events; and a description of six sacramental movements and corresponding teaching practices informed by Jewish-Christian traditions and Eucharistic practices. The nine detailed chapters include: Searching for the Sacred; Sacred Teaching; Education as Sacrament; Expecting the Unexpected; Remembering the Dismembered; Seeking Reversals; Giving Thanks; Nourishing Life; Reconstructing Community and Repairing the World; and Mapping the Future of Sacramental Teaching. "Teaching as a Sacramental Act" is ideal for students, pastors, Christian educators, spiritual directors, and pastoral caregivers who want to rethink and reshape the teaching ministry of the church.

Author : Sophia Institute for Teachers
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622823642

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Sealed in Fire Teacher's Guide by Sophia Institute for Teachers Pdf

The seven lessons included in this teacher’s guide provide you with dozens of teacher-written, classroom-tested activities that will prepare your students to receive an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation. Each lesson includes full-color sacred art, background readings, student homework, games, role-plays, and assessment tools that will empower young people — like the Apostles — to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and make disciples of all the nations. The veteran schoolteachers who wrote the lessons included here know firsthand your needs in the classroom. That’s why these lessons can stand alone, are “substitute-proof,” and are designed in a flexible, modular format. Even the layflat binding makes it easy for you to photocopy handouts and activities. Although these lessons are written with sixth- and fifth-grade classrooms in mind, all educators can use the lessons’ modular format to adapt them for use in parishes, classrooms, and homes with older or younger children. Lessons in this guide include: -Using Sophia SketchPad to Teach about Confirmation -Exploring the Sacrament of Confirmation with Sacred Art -The Sacrament of Confirmation in Salvation History -The Celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation -The Effects of the Sacrament of Confirmation -Living the Sacrament of Confirmation -The Fruits of the Spirit and Capital Sins All pre-lesson activities, handouts, readings, and a complete answer key are included. You can begin using this resource in your classroom today!

Author : Kenan B. Osborne
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809135655

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Sacramental Guidelines by Kenan B. Osborne Pdf

Sacramental Guidelines is an indispensable tool for religious education teachers. Parents and pastors will appreciate its straightforward overview of the sacraments and how they function in our faith as the heart of our Catholic belief and the soul of our spirituality.

Author : Judith Hahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009330114

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The Sacraments of the Law and the Law of the Sacraments by Judith Hahn Pdf

'Sacramentality' can serve as a category that helps to understand the performative power of religious and legal rituals. Through the analysis of 'sacraments', we can observe how law uses sacramentality to change reality through performative action, and how religion uses law to organise religious rituals, including sacraments. The study of sacramental action thus shows how law and religion intertwine to produce legal, spiritual, and other social effects. In this volume, Judith Hahn explores this interplay by interpreting the Catholic sacraments as examples of sacro-legal symbols that draw on the sacramental functioning of the law to provide both spiritual and legal goods to church members. By focusing on sacro-legal symbols from the perspective of sacramental theology, legal studies, ritual theory, symbol theory, and speech act theory, Hahn's study reveals how law and religion work hand in hand to shape our social reality.

Author : James D. Kirylo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350246201

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The Catholic Teacher by James D. Kirylo Pdf

James D. Kirylo gives a personal and reflective account of what it means to be a Catholic teacher, drawing on the rich history of the Church and its inclusive nature through ecumenical, interfaith, and interreligious dialogue, along with the Church's social teachings and its link to liberation theology and a critical pedagogy in the light of faith. Recognizing teaching as a sacred vocation, Kirylo covers how faith should inform the practical matters of teaching and how these intersect with broader debates outside the classroom, including the COVID-19 pandemic, gun control, the sanctity of life, and climate change. The Catholic Teacher: Teaching for Social Justice with Faith, Hope, and Love is a book that underscores the dialectical interweaving of faith and action in the effort to foster a more just, loving, and right world.

Author : Gordon S. Mikoski
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802824608

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Baptism and Christian Identity by Gordon S. Mikoski Pdf

In this book Gordon Mikoski examines how the sacrament of baptism, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the practice of Christian education together constitute a dynamic nexus that has the potential to foster congregations marked by the formation of both deep Christian identity and creative engagement in public arenas for the common good. / After establishing the necessity of holding baptism, Trinity, and ecclesial pedagogy together through his careful study of both Gregory of Nyssa and John Calvin, Mikoski outlines how this nexus can function for contemporary Christian communities as they carry out the work of educational ministry. He then explores the dynamics of faith formation in the contemporary American context, concluding with a suggestive treatment of implications of the baptism-Trinity-pedagogy nexus for the educational ministry of a given congregation.

Author : David F. White
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666742565

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Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World by David F. White Pdf

Tending the Fire at the Center of the World engages the central question of Christian formation, that is, what kind of knowing is most likely to awaken and sustain Christian faith? This book seeks to reclaim aesthetics—beauty and creativity—as the church’s most native theological way of knowing and being, which participates with God’s own glory and creativity. This book traces the prominence of aesthetics up until the dawn of the Enlightenment, including recent theologians who reclaim aesthetics for theology and formation. The book elaborates the aims and techniques of aesthetic approaches to teaching and learning in the church. Finally, this book cautions against overly determined rationalisms and moralisms that do not retain a sense of wonder, delight, and openness in the church’s teaching, liturgy, and proclamation. In this view, the church does not simply regurgitate familiar texts, political tropes, or flattened doctrines but breaks into the world as Christ’s body, a parable, a song, a flash mob, interrupting business as usual, giving new expression to acts of care, repentance, forgiveness, joy, and communion, awake to the beauty of God’s gifts and inviting our worship.

Author : T. L. HOLTZEN
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192873163

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NEWMAN AND JUSTIFICATION by T. L. HOLTZEN Pdf

Author : HyeRan Kim-Cragg
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532617249

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Interdependence by HyeRan Kim-Cragg Pdf

This book calls attention to an urgent need for postcolonial feminist approaches to practical theology. It not only advocates for the inclusion of colonialism as a critical optic for practical theology but also demands a close look at how colonialism is entangled with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, and sexual orientation. Seeking to highlight the importance of the interdependence of life, the author challenges and contests the notion of independence as the desirable goal of the human being. Lifting up the experiences of overlooked groups—including children at adult-centered worship, queer and interracial youth in heterosexual and white normative family discourse, and non-human species in human-centered academic and theological realms—the book contributes to expanding the concerns of practical theology in ways that create healthy community for all human beings and non-human fellow creatures. It also takes up issues of multiple religious belonging and migration that practical theology has not sufficiently explored. These illuminating new possibilities promise to renew and even transform church communities through the inclusion of often-neglected groups with whom God is already present.

Author : Mary Shepard Wong,Carolyn Kristjansson,Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415898959

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Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning by Mary Shepard Wong,Carolyn Kristjansson,Zoltán Dörnyei Pdf

This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers' and students' faith in the English language classroom.

Author : Octavian D. Baban
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597529990

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On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts by Octavian D. Baban Pdf

Contemporary reconstructions of Luke's theology of the Way should include in a more conscientious manner the contribution of Luke's post-Easter on the road encounters (the Emmaus, Gaza, and Damascus road narratives). This book argues that Luke follows here the rules of Hellenistic mimesis (imitation), many of which are illustrated in the novels, dramas, and history treatises of his time. Filtering these rules through his own theology and literary taste, he represents, in the end, the history and the proclamation of the early church, in an attractive and challenging manner, inviting his readers to good literature and to captivating spiritual experiences.

Author : Mark Chater
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334059684

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Jesus Christ, Learning Teacher by Mark Chater Pdf

The Christian presence in education has never been more controversial. While some secularists oppose any form of religious involvement in schools or universities, some Christians also wonder why the churches are there. Conflicting narratives surround the purpose of Christian involvement in education. Yet at the heart of Christianity stands an educator, whose passion and resurrection can be understood afresh as learning. But what does it mean to say that Jesus was a teacher? If he was a good teacher, was he also a learner? Is today’s Christian church learning? Can educators help the church to recover a ‘learning Christ’ who places learning at the heart of the Godhead and the church? How could the Christian churches take the educational significance of Jesus more seriously? Christian teachers often find themselves divided between a professional discourse on learning and making progress, and a theological vocabulary which they do not fully own, connecting only sporadically with their professional identity. This book helps educators to treat their teacher identity as a theological resource, rather than an obstacle, and in so doing to discover new insights on Christ which can be of relevance to the wider church and its mission.

Author : George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1667 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810884939

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Encyclopedia of Christian Education by George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

Christianity regards teaching as one of the most foundational and critically sustaining ministries of the Church. As a result, Christian education remains one of the largest and oldest continuously functioning educational systems in the world, comprising both formal day schools and higher education institutions as well as informal church study groups and parachurch ministries in more than 140 countries. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Education, contributors explore the many facets of Christian education in terms of its impact on curriculum, literacy, teacher training, outcomes, and professional standards. This encyclopedia is the first reference work devoted exclusively to chronicling the unique history of Christian education across the globe, illustrating how Christian educators pioneered such educational institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women’s education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. With an editorial advisory board of more than 30 distinguished scholars and five consulting editors, TheEncyclopedia of Christian Education contains more than 1,200 entries by 400 contributors from 75 countries. These volumes covers a vast range of topics from Christian education: History spanning from the church’s founding through the Middle Ages to the modern day Denominational and institutional profiles Intellectual traditions in Christian education Biblical and theological frameworks, curricula, missions, adolescent and higher education, theological training, and Christian pedagogy Biographies of distinguished Christian educators This work is ideal for scholars of both the history of Christianity and education, as well as researchers and students of contemporary Christianity and modern religious education.

Author : Janine M. Lanza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317131526

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From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris by Janine M. Lanza Pdf

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period. Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women's participation in the world of work; and explicitly examines the place of the law in the lived experience of the early modern period. How did widowed women use their newly acquired legal emancipation? How did they handle their emotional loss? How did their roles in their families and their communities change? How did they remain financially solvent without a man in the house? How did they make decisions that had always been made by the men around them? These questions all touch upon the experience of widows and on the ways women related to prevalent structures and ideologies in this society. Lanza's study of these women, the ways they were represented and how they experienced their widowhood, challenges many historical assumptions about women and their roles with respect to the law, the family, and economic activity.

Author : Amy Nelson Burnett
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195305760

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Teaching the Reformation by Amy Nelson Burnett Pdf

Though the Reformation was sparked by the actions of Martin Luther, it was not a decisive break from the Church in Rome but rather a gradual process of religious and social change. As the men responsible for religious instruction and moral oversight at the village level, parish pastors played a key role in the implementation of the Reformation and the gradual development of a Protestant religious culture, but their ministry has seldom been examined in the light of how they were prepared for the pastorate. Teaching the Reformation examines the four generations of Reformed pastors who served the church of Basel in the century after the Reformation, focusing on the evolution of pastoral training and Reformed theology, the theory and practice of preaching, and the performance of pastoral care in both urban and rural parishes. It looks at how these pastors were educated and what they learned, examining not only the study of theology but also the general education in languages, rhetoric and dialectic that future pastors received at the citys Latin school and in the arts faculty of the university. It points to significant changes over time in the content of that education, which in turn separated Basels pastors into distinct generations. The study also looks more specifically at preaching in Basel, demonstrating how the evolution of dialectic and rhetoric instruction, and particularly the spread of Ramism, led to changes in both exegetical method and homiletics. These developments, combined with the gradual elaboration of Reformed theology, resulted in a distinctive style of Reformed Orthodox preaching in Basel. The development of pastoral education also had a direct impact on how Basels clergy carried out their other dutiescatechization, administering the sacraments, counseling the dying and consoling the bereaved, and overseeing the moral conduct of their parishioners. The growing professionalization of the clergy, the result of more intensive education and more stringent supervision, contributed to the gradual implantation of a Reformed religious culture in Basel.