Developing Evangelii Gaudium Model of Catholic Religious Education to Nurture A New Habits of Love Culture among Students

Abstract

This study aims to see what factors influence students' new habits cultures and if the education culture of love and willingness in new evangelization mediates the relationship between the antecedent and subsequent variables. It studies catholic religious education lecturers in Central Java with a sample of 117 catholic religious education lecturers. Path testing found that the antecedent variables have a causal relationship with mediation and its consequences. Thus Evangelii Gaudium becomes the primary mission of evangelizing the Church in modern times in terms of contextual situations. Evangelii Gaudium's approach becomes a model for dialogue in life so that the Christian mission can penetrate the hearts of the people so that there is a transformation from within, and in the end, displays a new culture that has been renewed as a result of the encounter with the Christian faith. The theoretical findings of this study explain the importance of altruistic ethical teachings, which are the central teachings of Jesus in the Scriptures and are the highest laws emphasizing a love for others. Altruism is a form of empathy and the desire always to help every individual whose existence does not require conditions and is prosocial behaviour.