MAJOR LISTS
OF THE FIRST SEMESTER
Be able to show knowledge and understanding of these lists
From the First Quarter
Major recurring skills you should have learned by doing. These are from class and are not in Zanzig.
- Be able to describe the recommended five step process of really getting an assigned reading
- List and describe the suggested practice of "Reading Scripture on Three Levels."
Chapter One
Identity and Development: Becoming Who You are Called to Be
- List and describe the three crucial tasks of adolescence.
- List and explain what Zanzig calls the six dominant values of our culture.
Chapter Two
Faith: Responding to God's Invitation
- List and describe the two aspects of faith in God.
- Briefly describe four different sources of evidence of God's existence.
- Briefly describe four ways that God's Revelation takes place.
Chapter Three
Judaism: Discovering Our Reigious Roots
From the Second Quarter
Chapter Four
Jesus: Revealing God in Humanity
- How was Jesus' idea of the Kingdom different from what people expected teh Kingdom to be
- List the five ways that Jesus' actions manifested God's love and God's Kindom..
- Give five examples from the text of the upside-down values of the Kingdom of God (aka The Beatitudes)
Chapter Five
Jesus and the Paschal Mystery: Finding Life Through Death
- Summarize the evidence that supports Jesus' Resurrection.
Chapter Six
The Church: Gathering in the Spirit of Jesus
- List and describe the meaning of the three images of the Spirit's Power at Pentecost.
- In what two ways is Mary the model of the Church?
- List and describe the three images of the Church.
Chapter Seven
The Scriptures: Hearing the Inspired Word of God
- List the major religions of the world and name the Scriptures that are held as sacred by each.
- List the four major sections of the Hebrew Scriptures and briefly describe what is in each.
- List the four major sections of the Christian testament and briefly describe what is in each.
- List the four Gospels and explain what is uniquely characteristic about each.
- List and describe the five-step process of development that most of the books of the Bible went through.
Two important lists from class, not in Zanzig:
- List and describe the suggested practice of "Reading Scripture on Three Levels." Make sure you include Mike Carotta's How to Apply the Bible to Your Life.
- Give and describe Fr. Tetlow's method of contemplation from "Three Manners of Praying With Scripture"
Chapter Eight
Tradition: Handing On a Living Faith
- List five ways the Magisterium teaches.
- List and describe two images of Trinity: the text offered two from Tertullian and one from Saint Augustine.
- List and describe what the text calls the "Four Special Gifts of the Catholic Tradition."
Chapter Nine
The Sacraments: Celebrating the Grace of God
- List the seven sacraments in these groups: sacraments of initiation, the sacraments of healing, the sacraments in the service of communion.
- What are the two essential parts of the Eucharist? what happens in each part?
Chapter Ten
The Liturgical Year: Celebrating Sacred Time
- List the six parts of the Church's liturgical year. List these in order beginning with the first season.
- List the three days of the Triduum.
Chapter Eleven
Spirituality and Prayer: Growing in Life with God
- Describe five different forms of prayer.
Chapter Twelve
Christian Morality: Living in the Spirit of Jesus
- List the Ten Commandments.
- List and describe three major themes the Catholic Church has emphasized in its moral teaching in recent decades.
- Diagram the character cycle and explain how it works.
- List and define the three theological virtues.
- List and describe the four cardinal virtues.