| CODE | MRT5843 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Emerging Contexts of Spiritual Companionship | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Moral Theology | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will delve into how one can offer spiritual companionship to specific categories of individuals, both those who are always present in society in virtue of their developmental age (children and adolescents) and those who are emerging in our heterogeneous Maltese society (married, divorced, separated, cohabiting, LGBTIQ+, foreigners). It seeks to delve into how one can communicate, empathize and accompany these persons with the aim of helping them spiritually in the particular situation in which their life is. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims at helping students: 1. To assess the heterogeneity of today’s Maltese society and the implications of this for spiritual companionship; 2. To examine particular knowledge and skills needed to spiritually accompanying specific categories of individuals. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the particular realities faced by children, adolescents, married, separated, cohabiting, divorced, LGBTIQ+ persons and foreigners in terms of the spiritual life; - Characterise specific training areas of knowledge and skills when seeking to accompany specific categories of individuals in our contemporary society; - Identify the stages of development and spiritual progression of individuals in these different situations. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Differentiate between people who are either in different psychospiritual stages, or who are living particular situations in their life; - Implement specific skills which are required to spiritually accompany specific individuals; - Plan and design how to spiritually help and accompany these categories of people; - Evaluate any executed intervention in order to render it better or more effective. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation AMORIS LAETITIA of the Holy Father Francis to Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Consecrated Persons, Married Couples and all the Lay Faithful on Love in the Family. Vatican Press, 19 March 2016. - Marian De Souza, International Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Dimensions in Education. Parts 1 and 2 (Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2006). - Charls Kraft and Marguerite Kraft, Christianity in Culture: A Study in Biblical Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 25th anniversary edition (New York: Maryknoll, 2005). - Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion is seeking a Better Way to Be a Christian (New York: Convergent Books, 2016). Supplementary Readings: - De Souza, Marian. International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing. Parts 1 and 2. Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2009. - Santrock, John W. Adolescence. 13th ed. New York; London: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; McGraw-Hill distributor, 2009. - Steinberg, Laurence D. Adolescence. 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hil, 2010. - Yust, Karen Marie. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality : Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Carl Mario Sultana |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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