The Pedagogy of God: Its Centrality in Catechesis and Catechist Formation
Overview
A restoration is currently advancing in the area of religious education and catechesis, a restoration in which the concept of the “pedagogy of God” has a pivotal role to play. According to the General Directory for Catechesis, the primary difficulty facing catechesis today is that catechists do not yet have a full understanding of “the conception of catechesis as a school of faith, an initiation and apprenticeship in the entire Christian life.” The pivotal truth is that God himself is the pedagogue. He has the central role in every catechetical event. Catechists and those being catechized are invited to cooperate with him in learning under his grace.
Catechetical leaders will be happy to find within these pages scholars and practitioners of catechesis, who address many aspects of communicating the faith, yet with the unified purpose of answering the primary question of catechesis as a “school of faith” embracing the entire Christian life. It is here that we find the crucial place of The Pedagogy of God: Its Centrality in Catechesis and Catechist Formation.
Scholars and teachers at multiple institutions have come together to present a unified message in the communication of faith and the process of catechesis. This volume explores their methodology and teaching for catechetical instruction, revealing a plan for both the pre-Christian initiate and the Catholic student of religion.
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This volume is part of the Catholic Church and Ecclesiology Collection (6 vols.).
- Focuses on God as the center of every catechetical event
- Offers wisdom from experienced scholars and practitioners of catechesis
- Presents guidance on catechetical instruction which is in unity with the Catholic Church
- Part 1: Preliminary Considerations
- “The Key to Christian Pedagogy,” by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera
- “An Original Pedagogy for Catechesis,” by Petroc Willey
- “The Pedagogue and the Teacher,” by Petroc Willey
- “The Pedagogy of God: Aim and Process,” by Petroc Willey
- Part 2: The Pedagogy of God and the Four Parts of the Catechism
- “Divine Pedagogy and Doctrinal Formation of Catechists,” by Bishop Richard J. Malone, STL
- “Divine Pedagogy in Christian Initiation,” by Rev. Manuel del Campo Guilarte
- “Divine Pedagogy and Moral Formation in Catechesis,” by Rev. Wojciech Giertych OP
- “Divine Pedagogy in Prayer,” Rev. Louis Menvielle
- Part 3: Considerations for Method
- “The Pedagogy of God: Source and Model for the Pedagogy of the Faith,” by Waltraud Linnig
- “Methodology in the Light of the Pedagogy of God,” by Caroline Farey
- “The Ecclesial Vocation of the Catechist,” by Sr. M. Johanna Paruch, FSGM
Top Highlights
“Divine pedagogy has the aim of revealing the slavery to sin in the human heart and at the same time, through God’s grace, of liberating and transforming the heart so as to make it capable of communion with Himself. Here we touch another important element of divine pedagogy—the Law.” (Page 5)
“Catechesis makes clear, that the pedagogy of God is both the source and the model for what is known as the pedagogy of the Faith.” (Page 1)
“Catechesis is the means by which God’s pedagogy is made present, here and now” (Page 2)
“Saint Thomas describes four different kinds of light: the light by which we see things using our senses; the intellectual light by which we understand things and gain insight into them; the highest light of all—the divine light which enables us to see God in heaven; and then, standing between intellectual knowing and the direct vision of God, what Saint Thomas calls the ‘prophetic light’—a distinctive kind of knowing of those mysteries that God reveals to us, and the response to which is the obedience of faith from us.18 Catechesis has to do with the transmission of what is revealed to us in the prophetic light: God Himself, in the mysteries of the Faith, making up what the Church describes as the precious ‘Deposit of Faith.’” (Page 20)
“The primary characteristic of divine pedagogy is that it is progressive. As the Catechism states: ‘God communicates himself to man gradually. He prepares him to welcome by stages the supernatural Revelation that is to culminate in the person and mission of the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ’ (Catechism, no. 53).” (Page 4)
- Title: The Pedagogy of God: Its Centrality in Catechesis and Catechist Formation
- Authors: Caroline Farey, Waltraud Linnig, M. Johanna Paruch
- Publisher: Emmaus Road
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 200
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catechetics › Catholic Church; Catechists
- Resource ID: LLS:PDGGYGDTSCNTRLT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:36:39Z
Caroline Farey holds a PhD and has responsibility for catechist formation at Maryvale Institute.
Waltraud Linnig, PhD, is the Director for the program of formation for the transmission of the Faith at Studium of Notre Dame de Vie in Venasque, France, aggregated to the Pontifical Faculty of the Teresianum.
M. Johanna Paruch, PhD, is a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George and is Professor of Catechetics at Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio.