Year 9 Subject Selection

Religious Education

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Content Strands

Religious Education focuses on the relationship between God and the world. Within the study of Religious Education at Mount St Joseph, 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. 

 

Learning Focus

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. 

 

  • Links between Old Testament prophecy and the coming of Jesus as the Messiah
  • The purpose, messages and functions of Wisdom and Prophetic literature in the Judeo Christian tradition and the Wisdom traditions of other Religions
  • Ways key personalities and groups contributed to the development of the Catholic Church in Australia
  • Concepts of good and evil in relation to cultural worldviews
  • The Marian devotions in the Catholic Church and other faith traditions 
  • The role of women in the past and present Catholic Church
  • To interpret historical and contemporary artistic expressions of Mary and women in scripture, in relation to the place of women in the modern world
  • The foundations on which people base their ethical and moral stance
  • To interpret issues of personal and relational integrity through applying critical discernment processes.