The method of the critic correlation in the act of the catechism: didactic implications

Abstract

According to the formal object of the Didactics, we can consider the problem of the method as a fundamental pedagogical competence in the practice of the catechism. The Catholic Church –in its documents about this topic– has tackled this problem trying to find principles and criteria for the presentation of the Christian Message to the real and concrete human being. However, its considerations and suppositions tackle –from a functional-communicative perspective, but not from an existential-hermeneutical one– the relation between content and method. On the other hand, the practice of the catechism based on an existential-hermeneutical-deconstructive dimension of the relation between enunciation-annunciation of the Christian Message; the reason of the catechism, will be starting point for its didactic renovation. The theological method of critic correlation will enriched and throws light upon the complex, but unavoidable, task to present the reason of our faith to the world, not from a principle of institutional or dogmatic authority, but from the Christian stories and experiences that give sense to the human experiences.