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- Title
Catequéticaen los Estados Unidos Cinco autores católicos (1966-1992).
- Authors
MARTORELL ESTRENJER, Maria
- Abstract
The thesis studies the intellectual background of catechesis in the United States in the period extending from the conclusion of Vatican Council II (1965) until the year in which the Catechism of the Catholic Church was published (1992). To achieve this objective the concept of catechesis is analysed in the writings of five catholic authors, namely, Gabriel Moran, Berard L. Marthaler, James Michael Lee, Michael Warren and Thomas H. Groome. The research contains three main lines: (1) A study of the historical process of catechesis in the United States from pioneer times onward (including a consideration of publication of the catechism of the 3rd Baltimore Council). (2) This historical research allows us to identify major authors in this particular geographical area and leads to a second line of research, the study of the nature and purposes of the catechesis according to the five authors mentioned above. (3) The third line of study analyzes the intellectual influences and the discussions that took place among the authors themselves. In the last chapter of the thesis, entitled «Towards a general assessment of the authors», the background of American new catechetics emerges. John Dewey's philosophy, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's sociology of knowledge and that of the welsh sociologist Raymond Williams, the development psychology of James Fowler and Lawrence Kohlberg, and the thinking of Jürgen Habermas, stand out as the major intellectual currents influencing the five authors studied.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CATECHETICS; CATHOLIC education; RELIGIOUS education; VATICAN Council (2nd : 1962-1965); CATHOLIC catechisms; DEWEY, John, 1859-1952; BERGER, Peter L., 1929-2017
- Publication
Excerpta et Dissertationibus in Sacra Theologia, 2016, Vol 65, p165
- ISSN
0214-6827
- Publication type
Article