How to Teach Religion / Principles and Methods

A practical manual for religious instruction that emphasizes defining clear aims, selecting fruitful subject matter, organizing content for learners, and presenting lessons effectively. It addresses the teacher's personal growth and subject mastery, argues that success should be judged by changed lives rather than material covered, and identifies knowledge, attitudes, and moral will as instructional goals. Subsequent chapters offer guidance on cultivating a living sense of God, loyalty, spiritual responsiveness, and appreciation of religious forms, and propose classroom methods, management techniques, and discussion problems to help teachers adapt lessons to children’s experience and promote continuous spiritual development.