Religious Education Curriculum Directory (3-19) - The Catholic ...
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<strong>Catholic</strong> Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales — Department of <strong>Catholic</strong> <strong>Education</strong> and Formationflects the physical and spiritual realities in theworld (356-368)God’s plan: original holiness and original jus-tice (374-379)c1.3.2. <strong>The</strong> fall from grace: Original Sin (Gen 3;Rom 5:12; 55, 309-314, 385-390, 1707)A <strong>The</strong> full meaning of the doctrine of Original Sin isrevealed only in the light of the Death and Resurrectionof Jesus. It is essential to belief in the mysteryof Christ. <strong>The</strong> whole of human history ismarked by the sin of the first parents (1708)B <strong>The</strong> fall of the angels (391-395)C<strong>The</strong> rebellion of Adam and Eve and its consequencesa <strong>The</strong> rebellion of Adam and Eve was a sin ofdisobedience toward God, a rejection of a Godcentredlife and the choice of a self-centred life(396-398)b <strong>The</strong> consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin: lossof paradise, original grace, original holiness,and original justice (399-401)c Original Sin and its consequences for all: suf-fering, death, a tendency toward sin, need forsalvation (402-409)1.4. THE TRINITY<strong>The</strong> God whom pupils come to know is One as well as Three: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To havefaith in God means to acknowledge God’s greatness and majesty. It includes trust in God in all thecircumstances of our lives. An understanding of faith in the Trinity, reveals God who is actively presentin pupils lives. God is the source of all life and reaches out to us in blessing. As Son, God is theWord through whom all things are made and through whom all of us are invited into a full communionof life. As Spirit, God leads the world, the Church and humanity into truth. Faith in the Trinityreveals to our pupils a communion in love and truth as the pattern for life; the highest aim andgoal of human life.1.4.1. <strong>The</strong> Revelation of Jesus about God (65-67,cf. Jn 14:9)A God is Trinity: one in three Divine Persons (234)a This is the central mystery of our faith (235-237)b <strong>The</strong> Divine Persons are distinct from one an-other (254)c <strong>The</strong> Divine Persons are relative to one another;each is God whole and entire; all three personsshare the same attributes, i.e., all-loving, eternal,etc. (255-256)d Each Divine Person shows forth what is properto him, especially in the Incarnation and thegift of the Holy Spirit (258, 267)B God is the Father: Jesus Christ’s Father and our Fathera Jesus teaches us that God is loving, caring,healing, forgiving, true, justb God the Father’s love is faithful and eternal1.4.2. <strong>The</strong> Trinity: (238-248, 253-256)A <strong>The</strong> First Person of the Trinity: God the Father(238-242)a God the Father is the source of all that is, visi-ble and invisibleb God is Father in relation to the Son from alleternity (240)c God is Father to all those baptized as hisadopted sons and daughters through and inthe Son (232-233, 249)d God the Father of mercy also cares for the un-baptized (1257, 1260-1261)B <strong>The</strong> Second Person of the Trinity: God the Son(461, 422)C <strong>The</strong> Third Person of the Trinity: the Holy Spirit,the Lord and giver of life (243-248)D <strong>The</strong> development of Trinitarian theology in theearly councils of the Church (245-248)a <strong>The</strong> struggles of the Church to maintain apos-tolic faith in light of Christological controversiesand heresies (249-252)b Creeds and teaching articulated to combatGnosticism, Arianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism(464-469)17