To correctly prepare the final written and oral exams from both the contents and the methodology points of view.
The course seeks to assist students first to a more profound understanding of the identity, meaning, and method of Catechesis, and elucidate its dynamic relationship with evangelization, community, and conversion.
Second, the program also aims to begin to prepare students to work in religious education programs in Catholic schools and parishes as well as assisting with programs designed for youth ministry.
Second, the program also aims to begin to prepare students to work in religious education programs in Catholic schools and parishes as well as assisting with programs designed for youth ministry.
- Docente: Gustavo CAVAGNARI
General Objective:
Offer theoretical foundations for particular pastoral activities, as well as for further studies of specialization.
Specific Objectives:
- Explore the historical roots of Pastoral Theology as a proper form of theological reflection, linked, on the one hand, to biblical, systematic, moral, and spiritual theological traditions, and on the other, to human, personal and social activities. - Study the current understandings of Pastoral Theology from a specific Catholic approach. - Clarify the terms “pastoral” and “practical”, and the question of which is more appropriate to refer to the discipline. - Provide a theological pastoral mind-set for ministry.
Offer theoretical foundations for particular pastoral activities, as well as for further studies of specialization.
Specific Objectives:
- Explore the historical roots of Pastoral Theology as a proper form of theological reflection, linked, on the one hand, to biblical, systematic, moral, and spiritual theological traditions, and on the other, to human, personal and social activities. - Study the current understandings of Pastoral Theology from a specific Catholic approach. - Clarify the terms “pastoral” and “practical”, and the question of which is more appropriate to refer to the discipline. - Provide a theological pastoral mind-set for ministry.
- Docente: Gustavo CAVAGNARI
This course seeks to familiarize students with the Gospel of John, the Letters of John, and the Book of Revelation in order to be able to employ them effectively in academic, pastoral and liturgical contexts as well as for personal reading and meditation.
The objective of the course is to offer students an introduction to the vocabulary and grammar of the Koine Greek language in order to enable them to correctly read and understand the New Testament and the Septuagint in Greek. Upon completion of this course, students will have acquired the following knowledge and skills:
1. Knowing a basic vocabulary of frequently occurring words
2. Recognizing and interpreting common grammatical structures and patterns
3. Reading and understanding biblical passages in the original Greek with the help of a dictionary or lexicon
4. Translating words and sentences accurately for exegetical purposes.
5. Using critical tools: dictionary, lexicon, concordance, grammatical aids
1. Knowing a basic vocabulary of frequently occurring words
2. Recognizing and interpreting common grammatical structures and patterns
3. Reading and understanding biblical passages in the original Greek with the help of a dictionary or lexicon
4. Translating words and sentences accurately for exegetical purposes.
5. Using critical tools: dictionary, lexicon, concordance, grammatical aids
The course aims to introduce students of theology to the foundations, concepts and methods of Catholic moral theology so as to equip them to critically involve themselves in discussions of moral issues and to keep growing in their aspiration for truth and goodness in the warm light of the gospel.
- Docente: Matthew Marcel COUTINHO