The Catholic Teacher: Teaching for Social Justice with Faith, Hope, and Love
Ebook
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.
A critical guide for Catholic teachers in how to engage in reflective practice both inside and outside the classroom.
Includes a preface by Peter Mayo
Provides a critical guide for Catholic teachers in how to engage in reflective practice to discover teaching as a vocation
Written in an ecumenical tone to resonate with people from a variety of faith positions
Foreword, Peter Mayo
Preface: The Autobiographical Lens Channeling this Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Know Your Ecclesial Foundation: Engaging with other Faith Traditions, Appreciating the Church's Inclusive Umbrella, and Recognizing Teaching as a Vocation
1. The Emergence and Meaning of “Catholic” in the Catholic Church
2. That They All May be One: Ecumenical, Interfaith and Interreligious Dialogue
3. An Inclusive Umbrella That is the Church
4. Teaching as Vocation
Part II: Know What Informs You: Personalism, Social Teachings of the Church, Liberation Theology, and a Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
5. Looking Through a Personalist Lens
6. An Overview of the Social Teachings of the Church
7. An Organic Link to Liberation Theology
8. Enabling the Praxis of Liberation Theology
9. A Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
Part III: Know Your Positionality: Confronting a Pandemic, Gun Control, Right to Life, and Climate Change
10. The Courage to Take a Position
11. Covid-19 and a Peculiar Toxic Discourse
12. God, Guns, and Country
13. Preserving the Sacredness of Life
14. Climate Change and Ecological Conversion
Part IV: Know the Spirituality that Enlightens You
15. Grounded in a Contemplative Way of Being
Afterword, Merylann "Mimi" J. Schuttloffel
Appendix A: Two Major Splits in the Church
Appendix B: The Concept of Virtue
Appendix C: The Cardinal Virtues (and Eschatological Virtues)
Notes
References
Index
Written in a spirit of humility, graced with an ecumenical and interreligious air, and coming from an evident place of deep faith, James D. Kirylo underscores the interweaving link between a contemplative way of being and what it means to live an active faith life. Truly this book is a necessary read for all Catholic educators, really for all social justice workers.
A hopeful, heart-warming narrative on what it means to teach in the light of faith. Throughout the reading of this text, I felt very connected to God as it relates to the Latin American struggle we daily see in our classrooms.
James D. Kirylo illustrates and fosters his conviction that a Catholic teacher is one who engages and draws others from a well-informed, radical lived faith. An educator in and beyond the classroom, Kirylo is a challenging and compelling voice for Christian seekers. His teaching has the power of credibility.
Thoughtfully drawing from the social teachings of the Church and skillfully utilizing a liberation theology lens, The Catholic Teacher is essential reading for those who seek to make connections relative to education, emancipation, spirituality, and religion.
- Title: The Catholic Teacher: Teaching for Social Justice with Faith, Hope, and Love
- Author: James D. Kirylo
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350246201, 9781350246171, 1350246174, 1350246204
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350246201
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-11T00:27:10Z