Steps in understanding and living by faith or the road from Baptism to adulthood Cover Image

Etape în înţelegerea şi trăirea credinţei sau drumul de la Botez spre maturitate
Steps in understanding and living by faith or the road from Baptism to adulthood

Author(s): Monica Opriş
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: baptism; childhood; puberty; adolescence; religious education; religion curriculum

Summary/Abstract: Steps in understanding and living by faith or the road from Baptism to adulthood. The description of the relationship between the understanding and religious experience, namely the formation of the moral traits of personality and the features of the psycho-physical development requires multiple perspectives, but we resumed to the synthetic parts, without any particular details of this psychology and pedagogy theme due to the structure of this paper. For the approach in this study, we also relied on the cycles and stages of psychological development proposed by Ursula Şchiopu and Emil Verza, given that the proposed views are representative of the whole literature, with some positive or negative variations of up to one year, and also because they overlap with education cycles starting with the preschool period until high school. Specific aspects of religious life are punctuated relying on the texts of theological and pedagogical literature, curriculum documents, and based on personal experience in working directly with students of all ages.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 129-151
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Romanian