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Making Sense of Mary is not your average apologetics class. Instead of memorizing proof-texts, we are going to uncover how Scripture and the early Christians understood Mary’s role in God’s perfect plan of redemption beginning in Genesis with Adam, Eve, and the Serpent and tracing the prophetic echoes of that event all the way to the Book of Revelation.
Total classes: 10
Prerequisite: None
Suggested grade level: 8th to 12th
Suggested credit: 1 full semester Theology or Apologetics
Description
Making Sense of Mary is not your average apologetics class. Instead of memorizing proof-texts, we are going to uncover how Scripture and the early Christians understood Mary’s role in God’s perfect plan of redemption beginning in Genesis with Adam, Eve, and the Serpent and tracing the prophetic echoes of that event all the way to the Book of Revelation. We’ll see why Mary plays such an important and indispensable role in God’s plan, how the Kingdom of David sheds light on Mary’s mission both on earth and in Heaven, how being members of the Body of Christ affects our relationship to Mary, and finally what the “Woman clothed with the sun” in Revelation 12 tells us about Mary and our battle against the Evil One. The class will be based on Gary Michuta’s book, Making Sense of Mary.
Outline
Class 1: The Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve
Class 2: Mary’s Role in God’s Perfect Plan of Salvation
Class 3: The First Gospel
Class 4: Old Testament Prophecies about Mary
Class 5: Mary: The Queen mother of the Kingdom
Class 6: One Christ: Head and Body
Class 7: Daughter Zion
Class 8: The Woman of Revelation 12
Class 9: Apologetics
Class 10: Who were the “brothers of the Lord”?
Materials and Homework
Course Materials: Making Sense of Mary by Gary Michuta [Grotto Press], www.handsonapologetics.com/MSoM.html
Homework: Weekly reading and quizzes, plus a final exam to review material from the semester. Quizzes and the exam are automatically graded by the computer so that students have immediate feedback. Parents give the final grade.
