An Evangelizing Catechesis: Teaching from Your Encounter with Christ

by James C. Pauley

Publisher:

Our Sunday Visitor

, 2020

Overview

The catechist is vitally important when it comes to teaching the Faith. No book, no program, no text, no training can replace the teacher.

And that, my friend, is you.

In An Evangelizing Catechesis: Teaching from Your Encounter with Christ, author and speaker James C. Pauley shows you how every form of catechesis must be evangelistic in nature, fully centered on Christ, and designed to draw students into a life of missionary discipleship. You are a living witness of the Faith, and your relationship with God, the Church, and the sacraments should animate your natural gifts and talents as you teach. This is what will bring about lasting fruit in your catechesis.

Filled with powerful testimonies from catechists; the fundamentals of evangelization, catechesis, and discipleship; and even helpful connections for parents, An Evangelizing Catechesis will change your approach to teaching the Catholic Faith. It is perfect for parish catechists, Catholic school religion teachers, parish and diocesan catechetical leaders, youth ministers, RCIA coordinators, pastors, and parents.

Key Features

• Emphasizes just how important the catechist’s spiritual life is to their ministry
• Makes clear connections to how the spiritual and sacramental aspects of our life in Christ animate and authenticate each of the various movements of an evangelizing catechesis

Praise for the Print Edition

With An Evangelizing Catechesis, James Pauley offers us a master class in becoming master catechists. His book embodies what it professes: a substantive, compassionate, inspiring, relatable, and confident act of teaching. He awakens our desire to awaken others to the good news of Jesus Christ. He charges us to be missionaries in a day and age when the customary ways of the world are foreign to Christianity. He reveals the essential link for catechists between who we are and what we teach, because a catechist is a witness to the faith above all. Drawing from his deep reservoirs of scholarship and his extensive experience as a teacher, he presents us with a vision of holistic faith formation founded in and molded by the mysteries of the Catholic faith. In these pages, we encounter what we ourselves are challenged to do: boldly proclaim the Gospel with tenderness, patience, knowledge, and zeal.

—Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Ph.D, University of Notre Dame, author of A God Who Questions

This timely contribution to the missionary activity of the Church informs and inspires. Grounded in powerful testimonies, Pauley seamlessly links theory with practice, examining the key movements that make evangelizing catechesis through an encounter with Christ not only desirable but eminently doable! A must read for parents, RE teachers, catechists, RCIA leaders, youth ministers, pastoral associates, sacramental coordinators, and anyone involved in leading others to a life in Christ.

—Catherine Hilder, Leader of Learning Adult Faith Formation & Evangelization, Sydney Catholic Schools, Sydney Australia

Product Details

• Title: An Evangelizing Catechesis: Teaching from Your Encounter with Christ
• Author: James C. Pauley
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 209
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Religion › Christian Education--General; Religion › Christian Ministry--Pastoral Resources; Religion › Christianity--Catholic
• ISBNs: 9781681924328, 9781681924335, 1681924323, 1681924331
• Resource ID: LLS:VNGLZNGCTCCHRST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:06:16Z

About James C. Pauley

Dr. James Pauley is Professor of Theology and Catechetics at Franciscan University. He is the author of two books focused on the renewal of catechesis: An Evangelizing Catechesis: Teaching from Your Encounter with Christ (Our Sunday Visitor, 2020) and Liturgical Catechesis in the 21st Century: A School of Discipleship (Liturgy Training Publications, 2017). In 2014, Dr. Pauley was appointed editor of The Catechetical Review, Franciscan University’s journal dedicated to catechesis and evangelization. Dr. Pauley began working as a parish catechetical leader in 1989 and has served professionally in parish, diocesan, and university catechetical formation for more than thirty years. Having received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Liturgical Institute at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in 2014, he enjoys serving as a frequent speaker in dioceses and parishes nationwide on a variety of topics related to evangelization, catechesis, and the transformative sacramental encounter. Dr. Pauley is married to Katrina, and they are blessed with three daughters.