Spiritual Formation

Using the texts Praying Scripture for a Change, Walking with God, and In Conversation with God, this course continues where SF 1 left off with a review of lectio divina and the Old Testament before digging into Luke and Acts and how to pray the New Testament. This course is meant to help the students experience the Faith as a lived reality in the midst of their intellectual study of God and the world. Rather than treating religion as just another academic subject, the method for this course is based on the catechetical model of Christ--apprenticeship, prayer, and discipleship. Hence, though the topics integrate with and complement the material covered in the Trivium/Philosophy/Theology sequence and in the Great Books sequence, the focus is upon learning how to assimilate truth into daily life, ideas into action. The overarching goals are growth in virtue and holiness and a closer encounter with Christ.

Course Description: This class focuses upon the nuts and bolts of applied ethics, moral and spiritual discernment, and the roll of prayer and the sacraments in decision making and living in virtuous happiness and communion with God. As with all the Spiritual Formation courses this class is meant to help the students experience the Faith as a lived reality in the midst of their intellectual study of God and the world. Rather than treating religion as just another academic subject, the method for this course is based on the catechetical model of Christ--apprenticeship, prayer, and discipleship. Hence, though the topics integrate with and complement the material covered in the Trivium/Philosophy/Theology sequence and in the Great Books sequence, the focus is upon learning how to assimilate truth into daily life, ideas into action. The overarching goals of the course are growth in virtue and holiness and a closer encounter with Christ.