1. What is the ultimate goal of Jesuit education?
2. In the Suscipe, what does Ignatius give to God? What does he ask for in return? Is this a prayer you would want to make?
3. What was the first reading for most of you at your Direction Day Mass? This was our first Bible Reading of the Week and we discussed this a lot in class.
4. List two things 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. Recount Parable of the Talents, Matthew 25: 14-30 . Be able to retell St. Paul's "One body, many members," I Corinthians 12: 12-26
6. Why would religion teacher show a video about
Deion Sanders
Craig Keilberger
The American Civil Rights Movement
What key ideas does each short video illustrate?
7. Give the one most significant thing you personally learned in the first weeks of this class. Make clear the idea learned, how you learned it and the significance of the learning.
8. We looked at the major hopes of SLUH as stated in the "Grad at Grad." Be able to list the the five major charactersitics we hope will grow into by graduation, and will continue to develop and live the rest of your life.
9. Know how to solve snail questions and be able to explain what these have to do with this course.
10. Learn Ignatius Prayer for Generosity.
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 developmental 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. Freshman year is a time of great transition. You are certainly changing physically. Give four other areas are you changing.
9. Briefly list and describe society�s answer to life�s longings.
10. What does it mean to be critical of something we have learned, seen or heard in the media?
11. What are some religious questions many people begin to ask during adolescence?
12. Who is "unique in all the word?" Why is this so important to realize? How should this affect your self-image? How should this affect the way you view others?
Key vocabulary and ideas adolescence | develpmental tasks of adolescence | puberty | "givens" | the "if only test" | "made in the image and likeness of God" | aspects of your self: physcial, emotional, social,intellectual and spiritual | some dominant values of our society: popularity, consumerism, individualism, immediate gratification, sexual permissiveness, technological fixes | effective criticism | reflection | "longing for happiness."
Zanzig Chapter Two
Faith:
Responding to God�s Invitation
Bible reading: What did Jesus reply when the Pharisees asked him, "What is the greatest commandment?"
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. Sometimes the honest Christian response to tragedy is we don't know. But most of the time we do, we see the reasons and causes. Give some.
10. What is the Christian response to suffering?
11. Briefly describe four different sources of evidence of God�s existence.
12. What is revelation? On what belief about God is this concept based?
13. Briefly describe the ways that God�s Revelation takes place. Try this handout from Mr.Bart Geger, S.J. Three Ways to Know God.
14. What is the difference between faith and religious practices? Why do they need each other?
15. How can a crisis of religious practices lead to a faith crisis?
16. Why do young people need to be around people of faith and not just people who follow religious practices?
17. What is the Catholic church�s attitude toward non-Christian religions?
18. How is the story of Anne Frank �A Testimony of Faith?�
Key reflection: How are you responding to God's invitation in your life here and now?
Key vocabulary and ideas: worldview, metaphors, faith, Sacred Mystery, atheists, agnostics, problem of evil, revelation, religious practices, religious freedom, salvation history, trust, belief
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.
The Story of Ignatius
1. Know what happens at these places and on these dates.
1491 at Loyola
1521 at Pamplona
1521 recovery at Loyola
1522 sets out from Loyola; what happens at Montserrat?
1523 at Manresa?
1535 at the University of Paris
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
� A Christian's Response to Tragedy
� How Can We Know About God?
According to Huston Smith"s Christian Uniqueness"
What are the two distincitve charactersitics of Christianity?
According to your history text book
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What is the major contribution of the Jewish people to our world?
