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