Full Description
James D. Kirylo gives a personal and reflective account of what it means to be a Catholic teacher, drawing on the rich history of the Church and its inclusive nature through ecumenical, interfaith, and interreligious dialogue, along with the Church's social teachings and its link to liberation theology and a critical pedagogy in the light of faith. Recognizing teaching as a sacred vocation, Kirylo covers how faith should inform the practical matters of teaching and how these intersect with broader debates outside the classroom, including the COVID-19 pandemic, gun control, the sanctity of life, and climate change. The Catholic Teacher: Teaching for Social Justice with Faith, Hope, and Love is a book that underscores the dialectical interweaving of faith and action in the effort to foster a more just, loving, and right world.
Contents
Foreword, Peter Mayo
Preface: The Autobiographical Lens Channeling this Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Know Your Ecclesial Foundation: Engaging with other Faith Traditions, Appreciating the Church's Inclusive Umbrella, and Recognizing Teaching as a Vocation
1. The Emergence and Meaning of "Catholic" in the Catholic Church
2. That They All May be One: Ecumenical, Interfaith and Interreligious Dialogue
3. An Inclusive Umbrella That is the Church
4. Teaching as Vocation
Part II: Know What Informs You: Personalism, Social Teachings of the Church, Liberation Theology, and a Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
5. Looking Through a Personalist Lens
6. An Overview of the Social Teachings of the Church
7. An Organic Link to Liberation Theology
8. Enabling the Praxis of Liberation Theology
9. A Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
Part III: Know Your Positionality: Confronting a Pandemic, Gun Control, Right to Life, and Climate Change
10. The Courage to Take a Position
11. Covid-19 and a Peculiar Toxic Discourse
12. God, Guns, and Country
13. Preserving the Sacredness of Life
14. Climate Change and Ecological Conversion
Part IV: Know the Spirituality that Enlightens You
15. Grounded in a Contemplative Way of Being
Afterword, Merylann "Mimi" J. Schuttloffel
Appendix A: Two Major Splits in the Church
Appendix B: The Concept of Virtue
Appendix C: The Cardinal Virtues (and Eschatological Virtues)
Notes
References
Index
