M. Sciuto First Quarter, 1999-2000
Freshman Theology
First Quarter Review
Introduction
1. What is the ultimate goal of Jesuit education?
2. Jesus revealed what will happen at the end of time in the parable of the Last Judgment. The King will come and separate them as sheep and goats. What does Jesus say is the criteria by which the good will be separated from the bad? Matthew 25, 31-46
3. What did Jesus reply when asked “what is the greatest commandment?” Matthew 22, 34-40
4. List one thing from your parent interview that either strongly echoed or strongly contradicted an idea in chapter one. You need to list two ideas clearly and completely. Show how your parent and Zanzig contradict each other or how they agree.
5. There is an important St. Louis U. High document called “Profile of the Graduate at Graduation.” This is our very idealistic statement of the kind of person we hope our graduate will become. List the five general characteristics of the Grad at Grad.
6. Why would religion teacher show a video about Deion Sanders? What key idea does this short video illustrate?
7. Give the one most significant thing you personally earned in the first weeks of this class. Make clear the idea learned, how you learned it and the significance of the learning.
Study skills
What study skills and strategies have you learned this quarter? Has this helped you: in this class? inother classes?
1. List the recommended “five step process of really getting an assigned reading.”
2. List the four step process of growth. Any conscious learning usually proceeds through these predictable stages.
Major Skill of the Course: How to Read Scripture
1. Be able to list the Three Levles of Reading Scripture, and be able to do this with any assigned biblical passage.
2. Be able to list and describe Mike Carotta's How to Apply the Bible to Your Life. Be able to do this with any assigned passage.
Zanzig Chapter One
Identity and Development:
Becoming Who You Are Called To Be
1. What is the intent of this course?
2. According to the Catholic vision, why are you here on earth?
3. What are the types of givens that are part of everyone’s life? How do they relate to what God is calling each person to be?
4. According to the Christian tradition, in what ways are human beings made in the image of God?
5. Name the three crucial tasks of adolescence. How does the deepening capacity for friendship relate to each?
6. Who is John Hockenberry? What key idea of the chapter does his life illustrate?
7. List what Zanzig suggests are the eight “qualities and skills of friendship.”
8. Briefly list and describe society’s answer to life’s longings.
9. What does it mean to be critical of something we have learned, seen or heard in the media?
10. What are some religious questions many people begin to ask during adolescence?
From the video “Ad Libbing It.”
1. Why did Dr. Robert Jaffe begin trying to make kids aware of advertising. You have to use the word “life-style illnesses” in your answer. Define this term and give examples.
2. What is the major difference between the major death threats to people in the United States 100 years and major death threats to us today?
3. According to the video, who are the major targets of cigarette advertising? Remember what David Gerlitz said that R.J. Reynold’s told him.
4. Which key idea of chapter one does this video best illustrate? Explain (with concrete and specific details) how the video illustrates this key idea.
• identity • adolescence • puberty • popularity • consumerism • individualism • immediate gratification • sexual permissiveness • technological fixes • effective criticism • reflection
Zanzig Chapter Two
Faith:
Responding to God’s Invitation
1. What is a worldview? How do we get a worldview?
2. What is a metaphor? Why are we limited to speaking about God in metaphors?
3. What are the two aspects of faith in God?
4. Is having trust in God a matter of the heart or a matter of the head?
5. How do trust and belief influence each other?
6. How does the process of faith get started?
7. Explain the Catholic understanding of the ways we respond to God’s invitation to faith.
8. Give three examples from the text of inadequate answers to the question, Why would God let tragedy happen?
9. What is an honest Christian response to tragedy?
10. Briefly describe four different sources of evidence of God’s existence.
11. What is revelation? On what belief about God is this concept based?
12. Briefly describe the ways that God’s Revelation takes place.
13. What is the difference between faith and religious practices? Why do they need each other?
14. How can a crisis of religious practices lead to a faith crisis?
15. Why do young people need to be around people of faith and not just people who follow religious practices?
16. What is the Catholic church’s attitude toward non-Christian religions?
17. How is the story of Anne Frank “A Testimony of Faith?”
video “A Time for Justice”
1. Know the date and major content of these two important U.S. Supreme Court decisions:
• Plessy v. Ferguson • Brown v. Topeka Board of Education.
2. Identify: • Emmett Till • Rosa Parks • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Freedom Riders • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
• James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner
3. Which key idea of chapter one does this video best illustrate? Explain (with concrete and specific details) how the video illustrates this key idea.
• worldview • metaphors • faith • Sacred Mystery • atheists • problem of evil • revelation • religious practices • religious freedom
The Story of Ignatius
1. Know what happens at these places and on these dates.
1491 at Loyola
1521 at Pamplona
1521 recovery
1522 sets out from Loyola; what happens at Montserrat?
1523 Manresa
1528 in Paris
1535 at the University of Paris
1537 in Rome
1540 Regimini Militanis Ecclesiae
1556 Ignatius death
2. What was Ignatius worldview in his youth?
3. What event began his conversion?
4. What happened during his recovery that led to his metanoia?
5. These are important places in Ignatius life. What happens at
• Manresa • on the banks of the Chardoner River •Montserrat
6. What is Ignatius “First Principle and Foundation?”
7. What are the Spiritual Exercises? What is its “basic premise?”
8. What is the core of Jesuit training?
9. What are the two “chief instruments of the Society’s mission in the Church?”
10. What vows do Jesuits take?
11. What is unique about the Jesuits?
12. What Jesuits are on the outside walls of the Fine Arts Theater?
13. How does the life of Ignatius illustrate these key ideas of chapter one and two in Zanzig? Explain with concrete and specific details.
• cultural values • worldview • conversion
• Adolescence: Journeying from Childhood to Adulthood
• Finding Answers to Life’s Longings
• Our Hearts are Restless
• A Question of Worldviews
• The Meaning of Faith
• When We Do Not Have All the Answers
• How Can We Know About God?
1. What is John Paul II challenging you to do?
2. What does he ask you to ask yourself?
3. Our pope says that "Each of you has a special mission in life..." What is that special mission?
4. He says that you are... what?
From the video “John Paul II: The Millennial Pope.”
1. How does the life of John Paul II illustrate how worldviews are formed?
2. Give John Paul II’s big worldview, i.e. his view of the world in the 20th century. Does he see the values of the world as good or bad?
3. How does the life of John Paul II illustrate the key ideas about the meaning of faith?
4. John Paul II had a very difficult youth. How did he respond to tragedy?