Telling the Catholic Story Today: the GDC and its Augustinian Narrational Imperative Augustine’s cor Issue: cor inquietum to cor requietum

Sean Innerst

doi:10.15290/rtk.2019.18.09

Published: 2019-03-251

Vol. 18 (2019)

Telling the Catholic Story Today: the GDC and its Augustinian Narrational Imperative Augustine’s cor Issue: cor inquietum to cor requietum

Sean Innerst

Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej

Section: CATECHETICS

https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2019.18.09

Abstract

General Directory for Catechesis (GDC) number 39 requires catechists to narrate the events of salvation history, in order “to make clear the profound mysteries that they contain.” A positive response to this commendation of the Augustinian catechetical form by the universal Church and the imperative it carries with it, requires that we understand the narratio described in his work De Catechizandis Rudibus. In that work Augustine makes use of the famous theme from his Confessions, the cor inquietum, a fundamental element of his anthropology and a methodological principle for his evangelization and catechesis. That anthropological and catechetical principle of the restless heart serves as the foundation for an intensely personal form of catechesis, one attuned to the particular needs of the heart of each inquirer, as well as a universal norm for presenting the Gospel to all men and women, as the GDC makes clear.

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Narratio, Catholic catechesis, De Catechizandis Rudibus, salvation history, kergymatic catechesis, Augustine of Hippo

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Innerst, S. (2019). Telling the Catholic Story Today: the GDC and its Augustinian Narrational Imperative Augustine’s cor Issue: cor inquietum to cor requietum. Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej, 18, 127–137. https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2019.18.09

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Sean Innerst

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Augustine Institute in Denver United States

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SEAN INNERST holds a Bachelor of University Studies degree from the University of New Mexico, a Diploma in Philosophy and Liberal Arts from Our Lady of Grace Seminary in Boston (summa cum laude), and a Master of Arts in Theology from Franciscan University in Ohio (with honors). After completing doctoral course work in systematic theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh he transferred to the University of South Africa in Pretoria to write an interdisciplinary thesis in the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History, and Missiology on the topic of the catechetical narratio. The title of his doctoral thesis is “The Ancient Narratio as an Ecclesial Participation in the Divine Pedagogy: A Study of its Sources & Proposal for its Current Application.” Formerly Director of Religious Education for the Catholic Diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota, he went to Denver in 1998 as founding Provost of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary where he still teaches in the Theology Department. In addition to lecturing at the seminary, he is Professor of Theology and Catechetics at the Augustine Institute in Denver, a graduate program for lay and clerical students where he served as its founding Academic Dean.