Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Craft of Catechesis Book

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xvii
Abbreviations     xix
Introduction: By Whose Authority?, by Christoph Cardinal Sch&:onborn     xxi
An authority to "abide by"     xxi
An authority "under authority"     xxiii
The authority of the mission of Jesus Christ     xxvi
An authority to define, for holiness     xxx
An authority to define, for unity     xxxii
The Craft of Catechesis     1
The loss     2
Individuals and wholes     5
Alcuin of York and the craft of catechesis     8
Holistic formation through the Catechism     15
The primacy of grace     19
Twelve keys for renewal     23
An Organic Pedagogy: Savoring the Nexus Mysteriorum     25
Visions of organic synthesis     25
The human capacity for God     27
The place of individual doctrines in the unity of the Faith     31
Learning and teaching organically     32
A Personal Pedagogy: Teaching the Living Realities of the Faith     41
Doctrine is personal     45
Foundational personal realities     46
Personal transmission of the Faith     59
A RealistPedagogy: Teaching the Faith as One, True, Good, and Beautiful     65
Oneness     65
Truth     67
Goodness     71
Beauty     74
A Purposeful Pedagogy: Teaching the Story of Salvation     79
From the beginning     80
The narratio     84
Finding ourselves in the narratio     88
A Practical Pedagogy: Identifying and Selecting Teaching Points     91
The essentials of doctrine     93
Identifying and selecting teaching points for identity     94
Memorization, sources, and tone     97
Identifying teaching points for meaning     100
The higher illuminates the lower     102
Initial proclamation, new evangelization and conversion     105
A Scriptural and Liturigcal Pedagogy: The Word Made Flesh     109
Teaching from the Scriptures and the liturgy     109
Catechesis for "the mystery"     115
Mystery and sacrament     117
A unity: the Word becomes flesh     122
A Prayerful Pedagogy     129
Prayer in the economy of the mystery     129
Prayer as the main expression of man's relationship with God     132
History of salvation, history of prayer      134
Baptismal life, the source of Christian prayer     136
Virtues and gifts     139
The heart of prayer     144
Catechesis as a school of prayer     147
Putting It All Together: The Twelve Keys     151
Bibliography     155