DIVINE MERCY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
THEOLOGY 01: BASIC CATECHISM
INTRODUCTION
Part I: WHO IS THE FILIPINO CATHOLICS
Opening
Context
Exposition
a. Self-Identity
b. Meaning in Life
c. Suffering in Life
d. Life-commitment
e. World view
f. The Filipino way
g. The Filipino Catholics
Integration
Question and Answer
Part II: GOD`S CALL: REVELATION
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. God Reveal Himself
a. In Creation
b. In Scripture, Through Salvation History
c. In The Church
d. In Other Religions
2. Jesus Christ: Agent, Content and Goal of Revelation
a. Goal
b. Content
c. Agent
3. Where we find God`s Revelation
a. Scripture and Tradition
b. Interpreting Scripture
Integration
Question and Answer
Part III: OUR RESPONSE: WE BELIEVE
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Faith in Human Relations
2. Faith in God
a. Characteristics of Christian Faith
b. The Three Essential Dimensions of Faith
c. Faith in Three Classic Questions
d. Faith and Salvation
3. Paradoxical Characteristics of Faith
a. Certain, Yet Obscure
b. Free, Yet Morally Obliging
c. Reasonable, yet Beyond Natural Reason
d. An Act, Yet a Process
e. A Gift, Yet our Doing
f. Personal, Yet Ecclesial
4. Mary: Model of Faith
Integration
Question and Answer
PART IV: OUR UNBELIEF
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Obstacles to believing, Doing, Worshipping
a. Unbelief vs. Believing
b. Unbelief vs. Doing
c. Unbelief vs. Trusting/Worshipping
2. Obstacles to Belief and Self-Becoming
Integration
Question and Answer
CHAPTER I:
CHRIST, OUR TRUTH
PART I:
CATHOLIC DOCTRINE: CHRIST, OUR TRUTH
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. History of the Creed
a. Biblical Creed
b. Liturgical and Catechetical Creed
c. The Creed Today
2. Objections to the Creed
3. Functions of the Creed
a. Summary of Beliefs
b. Pledge of Loyalty
c. Proclamation of Identity
PART II:
GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Preliminary Points
2. God as our Father
3. God Revealed as Father in the Scripture
a. YAHWEH in the Old Testament
b. Jesus` ABBA Relationship
Integration
Question and Answer
PART III:
CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Creator
The Blessed Trinity is the Creator
2. God`s Creative Action
a. Biblical and Scientific Accounts
b. Church Teaching
3. Created Reality
a. Two Consequences
b. Man as Crown of Creation
c. Visible and Invisible: Angels
d. New Creation
4. Meaning of Creation for Human Persons
5. Divine Providence
Integration
Question and Answer
PART IV:
THE FALL FROM GLORY
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Scripture on our Human Fall
a. Genesis
b. St. Paul
2. Church Teaching on Original Sin
3. Original Sin and Filipino Catholic Life
Integration
Question and Answer
PART V:
GOD PROMISES A SAVIOUR
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Value of the Old Testament
2. Canon of the Old Testament
a. Torah/Historical Books
b. The word of the Prophet
c. The Counsel of the Wise
Integration
Question and Answer
PART VI:
JESUS CHRIST: MISSION AND PERSON
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Presupposition
2. Ministry of Historical Jesus
a. Jesus as Prophet
b. Jesus as Savior/Redeemer
3. The Person of Jesus
a. Jesus, Our Brother: True Man
b. One Lord Jesus, The Only Son of God
c. Jesus is One Person
4. Mary, Mother of the Son of God
a. Mary in Scripture
b. Mary in Catholic Doctrine
Integration
Question and Answer
PART VII:
CHRIST HAS DIED
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. The Cross: symbol of Saving Love
2. Christ`s View of His Suffering and Death
3. Characteristics of Christ`s Suffering and Death
a. Redemptive
b. from Sin
c. For Us
4. Profound Effects of Christ`s Death
a. Universal, Eschatological, Empowering Salvation
b. Radical Conversion
5. Christ`s Descent to the Dead
Integration
Question and Answer
PART VIII:
CHRIST IS RISEND AND WILL COME AGAIN
Opening
Context
Exposition
1. Importance and Nature of the Resurrection
a. Salvific Importance
b. Nature of the Resurrection
2. New Testament Witness to the Resurrection
3. Christ`s Ascension
a. The Resurrection as Kerygma
b. The Resurrection as Jesus`s Presence
c. The Resurrection and the Empty tomb
4. Christ will come Again
Integration
Question and Answer
