Catholic · Emmaus course
The Living Word: Scripture, Revelation, and the Human Person
1 NBCC CE Hour · Human Growth and Development
Why does the Catholic Bible have 73 books when Protestants have 66? Why can't faith just be a personal encounter without all the doctrine? Dr. William E. May answers both questions — and in doing so, opens the deepest truth of all: what God's Word says about you.
NBCC CE · 1 clock hour · Human Growth and Development (HGD)
- Length
- 1 hr
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
They want to know why their faith has real content, why Christ speaks to their deepest identity questions, why the Church's voice should be trusted.
About this course
Your Catholic clients are asking questions your secular training didn't prepare you for. This course gives you the framework.
"In the mystery of the Word made flesh, the mystery of man truly becomes clear." — Second Vatican Council. This 28-minute lecture unpacks what that means for your life.
Give your students an answer worth keeping. Dr. William E. May — one of America's leading moral theologians — explains how the Church gave us the Bible, why Christ's revelation answers modernity's deepest confusion about the human person, and why faith is not private opinion but real knowledge.
Who this course is for
Catholic Counselors and Mental Health Professionals
They need something no secular CE provider offers: a theologically grounded account of the human person that maps directly onto their work with Catholic clients.
Your Catholic clients are asking questions your secular training didn't prepare you for. This course gives you the framework.
Also for Catholic Parish Adults (LLI General Market); Newman Centers and Catholic University Chaplains.
From the course syllabus
Dr. William E. May — one of America's leading moral theologians — explains how the Church gave us the Bible, why Christ's revelation answers modernity's deepest confusion about the human person, and why faith is not private opinion but real knowledge.
Curriculum
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Module 1
The Living Word: Scripture, Revelation, and the Human Person
- 1.The Bible Is the Church’s Book: Divine Revelation, the Canon, and Who We Are
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