For St. Augustine, Christ was not only the goal of learning but also the way there: “See how Christ crucified is taught and learned,” he wrote, “and know that it relates to his cross that in his body we too are crucified to the world.” In this public presentation, Catechesis Institute director Alex Fogleman introduces his new book, Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation (Cambridge University Press, 2023), with comments from David Lyle Jeffrey and Q&A.
Sensing the Sacred: A Conversation with Hanna Lucas, Simon Oliver, and Ephraim Radner
In this virtual book launch, theologian and Catechesis Institute fellow Hanna Lucas presents her new book, Sensing the Sacred: Recovering a Mystagogical Vision of Knowledge and Salvation (Wipf & Stock, 2023), with responses and discussion from Simon Oliver (Van Mildert Professor of Theology at Durham University) and Ephraim Radner (Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto).
Humility as the Crux of Christian Teaching: Insights from St. Augustine
For Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Christian teachers who surrender self in loving humility for the sake of their hearers capture a core dimension of the faith that they teach. The same humility that Christ models, that Scripture communicates, and that seekers germinate as they come to be taught, teachers also share in.
In this public lecture, renowned Augustine scholar Dr. Michael Cameron explores the pedagogical dynamics of humility in Augustine’s great treatise, De catechizandis rudibus (On the Instruction of Beginners), showing it to be the treatise’s hidden crux, in two senses: both as a central theme of Christian teaching, and, paradoxically and counterintuitively, as the mainspring of the teaching act.
This lecture was co-hosted with the Religion and Philosophy Department at Hillsdale College on October 9, 2023.
Attaining to the Full Stature of Christ, with Rev. Prof. John Behr, Dr. Natalie Carnes, and Dr. Thomas Breedlove
Curtis Freeman: Making Christians
Greg Peters on Monastic Theology as a Model for Catechesis
Catechesis as Monasticism 5: Q&A with Greg Peters, Gerald Sittser, Lee Nelson, Ryan Jones, and Elizabeth Jones
Greg Peters, Catechesis as Monasticism 4: Monastic Catechesis in the Parish
Gerald Sittser, Catechesis as Monasticism 3: Catechesis in John Cassian
Greg Peters, Catechesis as Monasticism 2: Catechesis and the Rule of St. Benedict
Gerald Sittser, Catechesis as Monasticism 1: From Catechumenate to Monasticism
Bruch Hindmarsh on Catechesis and the Spirit of Early Evangelicalism
An interview with Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh, James M. Houston Chair of Spiritual Theology and Professor of History of Christianity at Regent College, on his 2018 book, The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism, with Oxford University Press, and how the early evangelicals can help us think about the task of catechesis in the modern world.
