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Theological Reflection involves a focused conversation that engages, personally and communally, three elements:

Theological Reflection involves a focused conversation that engages, personally and communally, three elements:. TRADITION. CULTURE/CONTEXT. EXPERIENCE. TRADITION.

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Theological Reflection involves a focused conversation that engages, personally and communally, three elements:

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  1. Theological Reflection involves a focused conversation that engages, personally and communally, three elements: TRADITION CULTURE/CONTEXT EXPERIENCE

  2. TRADITION Memories Charisms Family history Education Relationships Social Location Travel Work Health Heritage Ethnicity Geography Scripture Creeds Councils Liturgy Piety Stories Ecumenism History Canon law Lives of saints Religious orders MysticsMagisterium Psychology AnthropologySociology Arts Philosophy Movies Advertising Media Politics Language Customs Poetry Literature Cyber CULTURE/CONTEXT EXPERIENCE

  3. Theological Reflection serves “both to interpret life’s experiences in light of God’s purposes in Jesus, and to understand the Christian story about God in the light of what we are experiencing day to day” (Gula, Ethics in Pastoral Ministry, 54)

  4. “Receiving the power of our Christian Heritage, so we can live. . . .Unless adult Christians engage in critical and conscious theological reflection, the Christian community’s faithfulness to the gospel and its authentic witness to that gospel in the world diminishes”(Killen and deBeer, The Art of Theological Reflection, vii-viii)

  5. Theological Reflection seeks to allow the reality of theology to come through its distinct form, namely, experience correlated with tradition for the sake of praxis” (Kinast, WATSA Theological Reflection, 2-3)

  6. “Faith seeking understanding” St. Anselm “The discipline that interprets all reality—human existence, society, history, the world and God—in terms of the symbols of the Christian faith” (Haight, Dynamics, 216)

  7. EXPERIENCE IS INCARNATIONAL AND REVELATORY THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION FACILITATES ENCOUNTER WITH THE LIVING GOD FOR THE SAKE OF PRAXIS

  8. FOR THE SAKE OF PRAXIS: Theological Reflection as Practical Theology Practices are theory-laden See Don Browning, Fundamental Practical Theology.

  9. Vision Obligations Tendencies/human needs Environment: social, cultural economic Rules/roles Theory-laden practice

  10. Begin with a “thick description” of a practice Discern a “thick question” to put into conversation with the Christian Tradition Outcome: practical wisdom, new theory-laden practice FOR THE SAKE OF PRAXIS:

  11. Vision Obligations Tendencies/human needs Environment: social, cultural economic Rules/roles Begin with a “thick description” of a practice Discern a “thick question” to put into conversation with the Christian Tradition Outcome: practical wisdom, new theory-laden practice FOR THE SAKE OF PRAXIS: Theological Reflection as Practical Theology Practices are theory-laden

  12. What happens: Presuppositions/ 1st Naiveté Critical Inquiry/ distanciation AESTHETIC SURRENDER Appropriation/ 2nd Naiveté ENCOUNTER WITH THE LIVING GOD: Theology as Interpretation

  13. How it happens: Attending Asserting conflict as a crucible Acting (See Evelyn and James Whitehead, Method in Ministry) ENCOUNTER WITH THE LIVING GOD: Theology as Interpretation

  14. EXPERIENCE IS REVELATORY • Accessing our experience is critical • When we “enter reality” we are entering divine mystery • In the interpretive conversation we will meet God and ourselves and the other • Outcomes: Identity, Authority, Responsibility = renewed practice

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