Year 8 Subject Selection

Religious Education

Religious Education focuses on the relationship between God and the world. Within the study of Religious Education at Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College, students focus on the study of five different content strands across Year 7 to 10 through a variety of units. Studies include content on ‘Scripture and Jesus’, examining the role sacred scripture in both the development of the Christian faith and in humans relationship with God; ‘Church and Community’, examining the interaction between the Church and the call to participate in the body of Christ; ‘God, Religion and Life’, examining the search for meaning in life through ritual and meaning found it the light of God; ‘Prayer, Liturgy and Sacrament’, examining the place of sacred ritual and personal prayer in spiritual union with God and ‘Morality and Justice’, where the Christian vision of freedom and dignity in all areas and aspects of life is examined. 

 

 

Course Overview

This unit focuses on the key content strands within the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne through a variety of key concepts such as compassion, change, power, justice, liberation, freedom, integrity of creation and charity using provocative questions to base their learning on. 

Learning Focus

  • The connections between Jewish culture and tradition and the life of Jesus
  • The impact of history and culture on the writing of the Gospel.
  • The role of mission in the Church, historically and today 
  • The expansion of the global Church using an historical lens
  • To interpret the impact of the Church in the world in its global mission  
  • The different ways a variety of religious traditions express the presence of God and right relationships
  • To interpret ways right relationships are expressed within Catholic Social Teaching and other faith traditions 
  • Rites, signs, symbols and ritual used in celebrations of initiation across many faith traditions
  • To interpret the nature of belonging in relation to a Christian community and other communities of believers 
  • The significance of the teachings of Jesus and how they inform Catholic Social Teaching
  • The validity of a variety of sources as guides for moral decision-making in light of Catholic Social Teaching