RELIGIOUS FORMATION OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILD 1973

• Hardback book with Dust Jacket by E.F. O'Doherty, Ph.D.
• Copyright 1973 by the Society of St. Paul

" RESPONSIBILTY for the religious formation of young children can be one of the most challenging tasks and, at the same time, one of the most rewarding experiences parents or teachers can assume. The teaching of religion primarily involves providing an atmosphere of love, acceptance and trust, which will facilitate the child's growth into a mature Christian.
It is a definite participation in the priestly ministry of the Word.
Its goal is to develop the child's capacity to carry out the elicited formal act of faith and to attain true Christian maturity and personal responsibility in freedom. Religious formation therefore begins as soon as the child is born.

In this book Professor O'Doherty, an eminent priest-psychologist, discusses some of the more salient factors in forming religious attitudes of worship in children. He not only tells how children act at various stages of development but why, and he gives concrete advice on the most loving and constructive ways to respond to the child's needs in order to nurture the development of a healthy and joyful Christian.
He proceeds from general psychological notions to the specific problems of religious education such as prayer, faith, and the moral formation of the child.

This insightful book will be an extremely useful aid to priests, religious, parents and teachers, and others involved in the religious formation of elementary school children. "

Contents includes:

" Foreword

1. The Christian Continuum
From Human to Christian

2. The Mental-Emotional Relation
Soul vs. Psyche
In Utero
The Experience of Birth
The Infant's Consciousness
The Hedonistic Instinct
The Love-Hate Relation
Aggression
Oral Gratification

3. Guilt and Guilt Feelings
The Two Defenses
Enter the Father
The Third Way
The God Idea Evolves

4. Identification, Conformity and Moral Growth
Word Magic
Utilitarian Religion
From Autism to Realism
Consistency-Predictability
When to Begin ?
Moral Development
Overcompensation
Postponement and Discipline

5. Growing in Wisdom and Grace ( We Hope )
Easing the Learning Process
Principles of Selection
Conscience and Culpability
Confession: When and How
Confession and Communion
The I.Q. Question
A New Plateau
Rising to the Occasion

6. Aids to Assent
The Two Faiths
Commitment and Encounter
Unnatural Laws
Physical Determination
Moral Law
Moral Formation
Transfer of Training ?

7. The Child's Moral Terrain
Disobedience
Stealing
Freedom of the Will
The Juvenile Delinquent
A Real "Use of Reason"
The "Case" Method

8. The Frame of Reference: Faith
Formation in Chastity
A New Heresy
The Ordinariness of Sin
Fears, Doubts, Difficulties "

This book is in very good condition with only minor wear to the dust jacket.
No torn or ripped pages.
No markings or writing.

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