| The Program of Priestly Formation |
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| Preface 1: Statement from the conference of the major |
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| Superiors of men |
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| General Introduction |
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| Priestly formation in the U.S.A |
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| 1. The Formation of Priests - Religious and Diocesan |
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| 2. Different Models for Seminary Structure |
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| 3. Formation of Others in Ministry in Relationship to Seminary Programs |
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| 4. The Rhythm of life in Seminary Programs |
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| 5. Formation in commitment to priestly Celibacy |
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| 6. Admission of Seminarians |
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| 7. Preparation for Ministry of Social Justice |
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| The Significance of the Seminary for the life of the Church |
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| Part One: Professional Formation for the Priesthood |
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| Chapter one: Objectives |
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| Chapter two; Development of the Seminarian: Personal and Spiritual |
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| Article one: Goal - Personal Preparation for Priestly Ministry |
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| A. Ministry of the word |
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| B. Ministry of the Sacrament |
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| 1. Christ and the Church |
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| 2. Penance and Conversion |
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| 3. The Eucharist |
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| 4. Divine Praise |
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| C. Ministry of Service |
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| 1. The Community - Present and Future |
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| 2. Virtues of Priestly Service |
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| a) Sacrificial Love |
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| b) Mature Obedience |
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| c) Celibate Chastity |
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| d) Pastoral Poverty |
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| e) Commitment to Social Justice |
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| Article two: The Role of the faculty and the Director of Spiritual formation |
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| A. Collaborative Effort of the Whole Faculty |
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| B. Specific responsibilities of the diretor of Spiritual formation |
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| C. Provision for other professional services |
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| D. The training of the Spiritual directors and those in Spiritual formation |
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| E. Period of special introduction to the spiritual Life |
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| Article Three: Community life |
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| A. Community |
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| B. Aspects of seminary community |
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| C. Subgroups in the seminary community |
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| Article four: Discipline |
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| Article five: Norms for community life |
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| Chapter Three: The Academic Program |
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| Article one: Basic Principles of Curriculum Renewal |
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| A. faith af Theology |
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| B. The Shift of emphasis in theological education |
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| C. The Hostorical dimension of Theological studies |
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| D. The Pastoral dimension of theological studies |
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| E. Unity and Pluralism in theological studies |
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| F. Development needs of students |
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| G. Emphasis on methodology |
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| H. Respective roles of ordinaries and faculties |
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| Article two: The Theological disciplines |
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| A. Sacred scripture |
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| 1. Entrance requirements for scripture studies |
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| 2. Objectives of scripture studies |
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| 3. Professional character and autonomy of scripture studies: Ist integration with other theological disciplines |
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| B. Historical Studies |
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| C. Systematic theology |
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| 1. Objectives of systematic theology |
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| 2. Methodology |
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| 3. Pluralism |
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| 4. Dogmatic theology |
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| 5. Moral and Spiritual theology |
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| 6. Objectives of this study |
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| D. Sacred liturgy |
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| E. Pastoral studies |
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| 1. Canon law |
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| 2. Homiletics |
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| 3. Religious Education |
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| 4. Pastoral Leadership and counseling |
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| Article Three: Methods of instruction and evaluation |
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| A. Instruction |
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| B. Evaluation |
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| Article Four: Structure of seminary education |
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| Article five: Library |
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| Chapter Four: Pastoral formation |
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| Article one: Pastoral orientation of seminary curriculum |
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| Article two: Field education program |
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| Article Three: Objectives of the field education program |
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| Article four: Field education as astimulating and integrating force |
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| Article five: Practical recommendations |
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| A. Field education program in every seminary |
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| B. Director with full faculty status |
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| C. Variety of Sypervised Experiences |
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| D. Development of Program |
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| E. Auxiliary pastoral supervisors |
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| F. Faculty involvement |
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| G. Summer Apostolic Program |
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| H. Clinical experience |
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| I. The Exercise of diaconate |
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| J. Continuing education of priests |
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| Chapter Five: Seminary administration |
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| Article one: administrative principles |
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| Article two: Organization of the seminary |
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| Article three: The seminary and the community it serves: formation and policy |
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| A. The role of the ordinary |
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| B. seminry Board |
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| C. seminary community |
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| article four: Faculty and administrative officers: implementation of policy |
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| A. The faculty: conditions of service |
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| B. The faculty: Organzation |
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| C. the rector |
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| D. Other administrative officers |
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| article five: Students |
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| A. Admission requirements |
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| B. Continued evaluation |
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| C. the ordinary and promotion to orders |
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| Article six: Student life and activity |
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| A. Student participation |
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| B. social programs |
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| C. article seven: Means for the seminary to achieve its purpose |
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| Chapter six: Ecumenical dimension in theological education |
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| Introduction |
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| Article one: General principles |
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| A. Values of Ecumenical Formation |
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| B. Factors in Ecumenical cooperation |
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| C. Pastoral responsibility |
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| Article two: Ecumenism in Seminaries |
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| A. The faculty and ecumenism |
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| B. Students and ecumenism |
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| 1. Spiritual formation and ecumenism |
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| 2. Academic formation and ecumenism |
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| 3. Pastoral formation and ecumenism |
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| Article three: Special considerations on ecumenical cooperation |
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| Part Two: College Formation |
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| Chapter one: Introduction |
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| Article one: Aims of college formation |
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| Chapter two: Personal and Spiritual development of the seminarian |
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| Article one: The Situation |
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| A. The student |
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| B. The role of the faculty and of the director of spiritual formation |
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| 1. Collaborative effort of the whole faculty |
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| 2. Specific responsibilities of the director of spiritual formation |
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| C. Provision for other professional services |
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| Article two: The Response |
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| A. Hearing the word |
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| B. Penance and conversion |
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| C. Eucharist |
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| D. Communal and personal prayer |
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| 1. Communal prayer |
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| 2. Personal Prayer |
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| Article three: The context |
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| A. Community |
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| B. Aspects of community |
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| C. Subgroups in the seminary community |
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| D. Relationships with other communities |
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| E. Discipline |
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| F. Relation of community life and discipline |
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| Artic four: Social virtues |
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| A. Obedience |
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| B. Cilibate chastity |
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| C. Pastoral Poverty |
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| Chapter Three: The Academic Program |
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| Article one: Principles Underlying the Academic renewal |
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| A. Faith and the college program |
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| B. Developmental needs of students |
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| C. Degree to be Attained |
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| Article Two: general areas of study |
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| A. The study of humanity |
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| B. The natural sciences and mathematic |
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| C. Philosophy |
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| D. Religious and theological studues |
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| E. The skills of thought and learing: Creativity and communication |
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| Article Three: area of concentration |
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| Article four: Integration of studies |
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| Chapter Four: Seminary administration |
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| Article one: administrative principles |
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| Article two: Organization of the seminary |
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| Article three: The seminary and the community it serves: formation of policy |
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| A. The role of the ordinary |
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| B. seminry Board |
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| C. seminary community |
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| Article four: Faculty and administrative officers: implementation of policy |
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| A. The faculty: conditions of service |
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| B. The faculty: Organzation |
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| C. The rector - President |
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| D. Other administrative officers |
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| Article five: Students |
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| A. Admission requirements |
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| B. Continued evaluation |
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| Article six: Student life and activity |
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| Article seven: Means of the seminary to achieve its purpose |
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| Chapter five: Apostolic Experience |
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| Part Three: High School Formation |
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| Chapter one: Aims and objectives |
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| Article one: Vocations and the adolescent |
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| Article two: Formation programs |
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| Chapter two: Significant element of formation |
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| Article one: Formation in faith |
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| Article two: Social formation |
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| Article three: Academic formation |
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| Chapter Three: Administratuion of the high school seminary |
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| Part Four: Seminary Education in a Multicultural and Multiracial Soriety |
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| Introduction |
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| Article one: Education in awareness |
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| A. For all seminary Students |
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| B. For students belonging to ethnic minority Groups |
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| Article Two: Vocations from diverse cultural and ethnic groups |
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| Conclusion |
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| Part Five: Programs of Formation for other ministries and Christian service in relation to the Seminary program |
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| Appendix: Model Curricula for theoologate and college seminary |
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| A. Meaning of model curriculum |
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| B. Models of professional theological curricula |
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| 1. Basic requirements to Be Kept in Mind |
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| 2. Model curricula for professional theological formation |
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| C. Models of College Seminary Curricula |
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| 1. Basic requirements to Be Kept in Mind |
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| 2. Models of College Seminary Curricula |
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| Notes |
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| Index |
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