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    This course provides an overview of Franciscan gospel living and its relevance to the contemporary world. The course aims to explore what it means to be Franciscan today through investigating responses to questions about gospel mandates and lifestyle. Key objectives are to foster respect for the Judeo-Christian-Franciscan tradition, understand how the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order responds to the gospel today, and nurture responses to the gospel's call in modern life. Required texts include works on St. Francis and important Church documents.

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    This course provides an overview of Franciscan gospel living and its relevance to the contemporary world. The course aims to explore what it means to be Franciscan today through investigating responses to questions about gospel mandates and lifestyle. Key objectives are to foster respect for the Judeo-Christian-Franciscan tradition, understand how the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order responds to the gospel today, and nurture responses to the gospel's call in modern life. Required texts include works on St. Francis and important Church documents.

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    This course provides an overview of Franciscan gospel living and its relevance to the contemporary world. The course aims to explore what it means to be Franciscan today through investigating responses to questions about gospel mandates and lifestyle. Key objectives are to foster respect for the Judeo-Christian-Franciscan tradition, understand how the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order responds to the gospel today, and nurture responses to the gospel's call in modern life. Required texts include works on St. Francis and important Church documents.

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    FRAN 201

    Franciscan Gospel Living in the Contemporary World


    (3 IUs)

    COURSE
    DESCRIPTION: A study of theology and spirituality as the foundation of the Franciscan
    Gospel life with an emphasis on the challenge to shape a spiritual,
    historical, and Franciscan vision in the contemporary world.

    An explanation of the pastoral and spiritual dimensions of Christian Franciscan


    tradition in terms of their scriptural roots, historical developments and current
    interpretations, highlighting the relevance of Christian Franciscan values for living
    in the contemporary world.

    COURSE
    PREMISE: A course in Franciscan Gospel Living in the Contemporary World attempts to
    highlight the importance of responding to the Gospel challenge in everyday life.
    Accordingly, this course aims to investigate the responses to the following
    questions: What does it mean to be a Franciscan in the contemporary world?
    What have we inherited? What is Gospel living? What does the Gospel
    mandate? What is the Gospel lifestyle for everyday life?

    This introductory course for the Institute for Contemporary Franciscan Life strives
    zealously to evoke critical habits of mind and heart, stimulate a sense of the
    mandates of living a Gospel life, and encourage Gospel choices in the service of
    others.

    COURSE
    OBJECTIVES: To foster and nurture a respect for the tradition of the Judeo-Christian-
    Franciscan way of life;

    To grasp how The Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order and the Franciscan
    tradition is a response to the gospel in our contemporary world;

    To study the spirituality and theology that give meaning to the references to
    Christ in the Franciscan tradition;

    To study Judeo-Christian-Franciscan community as a root of western culture with


    an emphasis on the challenge to share a faithful, spiritual, and social vision in the
    contemporary world; and

    To foster and nurture a response to the gospel mandate in the contemporary


    world.

    TEXTBOOKS: Dennis, Marie, Joseph Nangle, OFM, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, and Stuart Taylor.
    St. Francis and the Foolishness of God. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1993.

    "Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity" (Apostolicam Actuositatem). Trans.


    N.C.W.C. Boston: Pauline - St. Paul Books & Media, 1965.

    "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" (Gaudium et Spes).


    Trans. N.C.W.C. Boston: Pauline - St. Paul Books & Media, 1965.

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