Texts of Interest and Professional Associations

Historical Texts

Horace Bushnell, Christian Nurture (Part I)
George Albert Coe, The Social Theory of Religious Education
Josef Jungmann, The Good News Yesterday and Today
H. Shelton Smith, Faith and Nurture
Harrison S. Elliott, Can Religious Education be Christian?
Lewis Sherrill, The Gift of Power
Iris Cully, The Dynamics of Christian Education
Sarah Little, To Set One's Heart
C. Ellis Nelson, Where Faith Begins
Alphons Nebreda, Kerygma in Crisis
Gerard Sloyan, Shaping The Christian Message
Gabriel Moran, Catechesis of Revelation
Michael Warren, Sourcebook in Modern Catechetics
Marianne Sawicki, The Gospel in History

Contemporary Texts

Gabriel Moran, The Present Revelation
John Westerhoff, Will Our Children Have Faith
Mary Boys, Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions
Seymour and Miller, Mapping Christian Education
Mary Elizabeth Moore, Education for Continuity and Change
Maria Harris, Teaching and Religious Imagination
Thomas Groome, Christian Religious Education
Parker Palmer, To Know as We are Known
James Michael Lee, The Shape of Religious Instruction
Padraic O'Hare, ed. Foundations of Religious Education
Charles Foster, Educating Congregations
Richard Osmer, A Teachable Spirit
Daniel Schipani, Religious Education Encounters Liberation Theology
Anne Streaty Wimberley, Soul Stories: African American Christian Education

Ecclesial Texts (required of all)

Pope John Paul II, Catechesi Tradendae - Apostolic Exhortation on Catechesis
Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi - On Evangelization in the Modern World
NCCB, General Directory of Catechesis (1998)

Professional Associations:
REA/APRRE - Religious Education Association/Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education

National Conference of Catechetical Leaders (NCCL)

Association of Practical Theology (APT)

Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)

College Theology Society

CACE - Chief Administrators of Catholic Education

Updated: November 20, 2007
Maintained: Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
© 2007 The Trustees of Boston College. Legal