Jesus, Friend and Savior

By Michael Francis Pennock

Written in accord with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and rooted in the sound catechetical principles of the National Catechetical Directory, these texts present a well-defined curriculum model that stresses clear objectives, careful organization, and creative methods and evaluation procedures to check the attainment of goals. Very flexible, allowing teachers to select materials to highlight and stress, each text can be implemented on various grade levels for a quarter, a semester, or a full year depending on the length and frequency of class meetings.Young people meet the historical Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of faith as they clearly connect a living faith in Jesus with the call to lead a Christian life.The first part of the text discusses the themes and style of Jesus' teaching, and the message of the good news on which we base our faith and lives. The second part investigates the creation of the gospels, and the significance of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus for our faith. The final chapter addresses meeting Jesus in our everyday lives through prayer and service.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877934207
• ISBN13: 9780877934202
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ave Maria Pr
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 10

Customer Reviews

Excellent Middle School textbook

Finding materials to teach religion to middle schoolers is not always easy. This is an excellent text that I use with eighth-graders.My goals are to present Jesus as both fully human and fully divine, challenging students to begin to see how Jesus wrestled with the same difficulties that they do; to encourage self-analysis of students' relationships with Jesus; and to open their minds to the problems and possibilities of God's world. This book contains materials that help with all of these things. There is factual information about Jesus' birth, early life, ministry, and legacy. Information to help students understand the time and place in which Jesus lived and taught is an important part of this book. Included as well are questionnaires to help teens evaluate their own relationships with God, with Jesus, and with other people. There are journal entry questions and thought-provoking poems and stories. In addition, one finds the usual summaries of the chapters and some questions about factual material. A teacher's guide is available with excellent supplementary materials. Basically, this book addresses not only the factual information one needs in order to grow in awareness of God, but also includes many opportunities for stimulating the development of faith by stirring the emotions.It is published by Ave Maria Press and so is based on the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. However, I teach in an Episcopal school and found only two things I felt I needed to point out to our students as doctrine of the Roman church which were not part of the doctrine of the Episcopal church.