Literature in the formation of the person
The particular focus of this course is the importance of good literature to our human formation, the special power that reading good books has to help us develop into fuller human persons.
In the first video, we will see how literature is both universal and personal, and how this characteristic of capturing the essence of human experience in all its richness and diversity makes us more fully human.
In the second video, we will take a closer look at Catholic literature and the Catholic worldview, and how good Catholic literature evangelizes without proselytizing. And in the third video, we will discover how literature helps you grow as a person capable of entering into empathetic relationships with others, capable of understanding others and knowing yourself, and capable of paying attention to the presence of God.
- Topics
- Why Literature? Personal and universal experience.
- The role of Catholic literature and the Catholic worldview.
- The role of literature in the growth of our own humanity.
- Your instructor
Sister Teresa Harrel
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Sister Teresa Harrell is a sister of the Society of Mary, a religious life institute of sisters dedicated to the New Evangelization, which works in a complementary way with the Saint John Society.
After being homeschooled, she finished her last two years of high school at Damascus Christian School (Damascus, Oregon).
Subsequently received her Masters in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio), her Masters in Letters (Rhetoric and Composition) from Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) and her Bachelor’s in Letters (English) from Corban University (Salem, Oregon). He studied Philosophy at the Centro de Estudios John Henry Newman (Buenos Aires).
As a Sister of the Society of Mary, she has served among university students in Cordoba, in Pilar, Buenos Aires, in Corvallis and Portland Oregon, where for eight years she was campus minister for the Newman Center at Portland State University.
She currently lives in West Linn, Oregon, at the Old River Pastoral Center, works at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Portland, Oregon, where she is coordinator of liturgy and spirituality, and teaches Theology at Central Catholic High School (Portland).
The Truth has been accepted in the world not because of its character as a system, nor because of books, nor because of argumentation, nor because of the temporal power that supported it, but because of the personal influence of those who testified, being at the same time teachers and models.
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Literature in the formation of the person