LIVING
MINISTRY/ CCRS
MODULE
OUTLINES
JUSTICE
AND PEACE
Aim
The purpose of this module is to introduce participants
to some of the basic themes of the Catholic Social
Teaching and how these relate to their own settings.
This module offers an introduction to Justice and
Peace, the development of this area of Church life
in history and the teaching of the Chuch, and Justice
and Peace in the modern world and current issues.
Learning Outcomes
Participants should :
be able to understand the relationship between the
Church and the modern world
be familiar with basic Church teaching on - the
world of work, the development of peoples, evangelisation
in the modern world
be able to relate what they have learned to their
back-home setting
Learning Process
This will include:
reflection on personal experience
related input to deepen understanding
the gathering of information through reading and
listening
group discussion .
Syllabus Outline
An introduction to recent Church documents on social
issues
How the Church understands the relationship between
world and worldwide Church
What the Church says about the development of peoples
The importance of appropriate evangelisation in
the context of the modern world
What the Church says about the world of work
Assessment for CCRS
Students
Participants will be credited with this module upon
satisfying both of the following conditions:
Attendance for at least 80% of the ten hours' contact
time
Successful completion of an Assignment based on
some aspect of the content of this module and related
to one or more of the identified learning outcomes.
Recommended Reading
Contemporary
Catholic Theology: a Reader
edited by Michael A Hayes & Liam Gearon,
1998 Gracewing
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
1994,
Geoffrey Chapman
Our Best Kept Secret
CAFOD, London 1988
Proclaiming Justice and Peace
Walsh
and Davies, CAFOD/Collins, London 1991
The Coming of the Third Millennium
CAFOD, 1996
Responses
to 101 Questions on Catholic Social Teaching
Kenneth
R Himes OFM, 2001 Paulist Press
Faith
Works
Jim
Wallis, 2002 SPCK
The
Common Good
Bishops
Conference of England and Wales 1997
Sample
Assignment Titles
The
Bible calls us to be open to the possibility of
change, and to see justice and compassion as the
basis of our faith in action.
"An
economic order that condemns millions to abject
poverty is grossly unjust" (The Common Good).
What is our responsibility as individual Christians
and as part of the believing community in this situation?
Choose
one of the following concepts: human dignity; Common
Good; Solidarity; Subsidiarity. Trace its development
in Catholic Social Teaching.
What
was Jesus understanding of the Kingdom? What are
its implications for us?
What
demands do Scriptures and Catholic Social Teaching
make on the way we live our lives?
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