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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147727| Title: | Towards a person-centred catechesis : insights from Augustine’s De Catechizandis Rudibus |
| Other Titles: | Beyond certainty : reimagining faith in a changing world : volume 1 |
| Authors: | Catania, Mariella |
| Keywords: | Camilleri, Renè, 1953- Catholic Church -- Malta -- Clergy Catechetics -- Catholic Church Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. De Catechizandis Rudibus Catechetics -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 |
| Issue Date: | 2026 |
| Publisher: | Malta University Press |
| Citation: | Catania, M. (2026). Towards a person-centred catechesis : insights from Augustine’s De catechizandis rudibus. In J. A. Berry, & K. Schembri (Eds.), Beyond certainty : reimagining faith in a changing world : volume 1 (pp. 113-132). Malta: Malta University Press. |
| Abstract: | In our approach to contemporary culture, we need a new
pedagogy of the faith. Perhaps we need to revisit the De
Catechizandis Rudibus of St. Augustine because the transmission
of the faith falls short unless it is not autobiographical. As Paul
VI said, we need more witnesses than teachers … If the parish
does not embark today on this new pedagogy, on the true
transmission of the faith, it remains simply a structure, an
institution, a service station that fails to help people meet God.
It continues to make Christians but not disciples. Theologian René Camilleri expressed these words in April 2023, at a conference which took place just days before the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the end of the Covid-19 pandemic as a global health emergency. Why is this detail meaningful in the context of parish catechesis? |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147727 |
| ISBN: | 9789918617241 |
| Appears in Collections: | Beyond certainty : reimagining faith in a changing world : volume 1 |
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