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On the way to life
Written by Heythrop institute for Religion, ethics and public life last year. Document looks at contemporary culture, theological development and resources and responses for the Church today.
(Gaudium et Spes § 62)
The Faithful should live in the closest contact with others of their time, and should work for a perfect understanding of their modes of thought and feelings as expressed in their culture. They should combine knowledge resulting from the new sciences and teaching, and from recent discoveries, with Christian morality and formation in Christian teaching, so that their religious worship and uprightness go hand in hand with their knowledge of the sciences and increasing technology, and they are thus able to interpret everything with full Christian awareness.
What is culture?
A ‘culture’ is a system(s) of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours and artefacts that members of a society or group use to interact with each other, and to interpret and shape their environments. Catholicism is a culture.
Catholic culture and contemporary culture
Every member of Church stands at boundary of secular and ecclesial cultures. Church must engage with contemporary culture. This must be done with imagination and encouragement. We must find language to talk about sin and salvation.
Evangelisation and Culture
Evangelisation is at the heart of the mission of the Church. But the Church is also evangelised by Culture. Religion is seen as problematic for secular society. It is a deeply puzzling reality!
Cardinal virtues of modernity
Freedom Rationality Privacy Authority of conscience Freedom of expression
Secular Thinking 1
Separation of natural and supernatural spheres. Loss of transcendent spectacles. Science as the authoritative form of knowledge and truth Progress – of great importance
Secular Thinking 2
Ethics and technology should be separated for sake of progress. In process of secularisation, religion should be more marginal and disappear altogether. Experience and feeling most important modes of seeing the world.
Religious Change
Rise of New Age culture. Individual growth, well being, individual choice… a pick and mix religion. Spirituality that lacks definition, with no tradition. Commodification of religion
Religious Change 2
Religion superseded by spirituality Confinement of religion to the private sphere Inaccuracy of Nietzsche: “God is dead.” Search for purpose and meaning in fragmented culture.
Language
Marx said every revolution succeeds where the language of the old order dies. Death of language in religion Secular culture can pinch words Religion must find new language in articulating and shaping culture
Changes in society
Technology has improved self expression, definition and public projection. Speed of communication has distorted time. Poverty in the modern world seen as absence of leisure.
Religion to the Rescue
Church sees nothing as inevitable
Religion is central to the transmission of cultural memory. Crisis of transmission part of cultural malaise, and especially the transmission of faith. Religious community can evangelise culture
Church to the Rescue
Church is a gift to the world. Its source is not conditional on the world. Church cannot exist for herself, can only be sent. The importance of sacrifice and thanksgiving found in the Eucharist.
Church to the Rescue
Revive importance of devotional life. Retrieve the national communal memory of faith eg pilgrimages to national sites. Life of faith is always a project, never complete
Church to the Rescue
Beautiful liturgy is the opposite of banality and ordinariness. Spirituality of Communion… we are all part of the mystical body of Christ Catholic Sacramental imagination.
Church to the rescue
Religious education, catechesis, formation To be Christian is to be a witness to Christ in the world Church promotes the good of the person and the good of society.
Evangelisation
Occurs when communities have confidence and outward looking Done with imagination and courage in the language and understanding of where people are.
On the way to life
Written by Heythrop institute for Religion, ethics and public life last year. Document looks at contemporary culture, theological development and resources and responses for the Church today.
(Gaudium et Spes § 62)
The Faithful should live in the closest contact with others of their time, and should work for a perfect understanding of their modes of thought and feelings as expressed in their culture. They should combine knowledge resulting from the new sciences and teaching, and from recent discoveries, with Christian morality and formation in Christian teaching, so that their religious worship and uprightness go hand in hand with their knowledge of the sciences and increasing technology, and they are thus able to interpret everything with full Christian awareness.
What is culture?
A ‘culture’ is a system(s) of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours and artefacts that members of a society or group use to interact with each other, and to interpret and shape their environments. Catholicism is a culture.
Catholic culture and contemporary culture
Every member of Church stands at boundary of secular and ecclesial cultures. Church must engage with contemporary culture. This must be done with imagination and encouragement. We must find language to talk about sin and salvation.
Evangelisation and Culture
Evangelisation is at the heart of the mission of the Church. But the Church is also evangelised by Culture. Religion is seen as problematic for secular society. It is a deeply puzzling reality!
Cardinal virtues of modernity
Freedom Rationality Privacy Authority of conscience Freedom of expression
Secular Thinking 1
Separation of natural and supernatural spheres. Loss of transcendent spectacles. Science as the authoritative form of knowledge and truth Progress – of great importance
Secular Thinking 2
Ethics and technology should be separated for sake of progress. In process of secularisation, religion should be more marginal and disappear altogether. Experience and feeling most important modes of seeing the world.
Religious Change
Rise of New Age culture. Individual growth, well being, individual choice… a pick and mix religion. Spirituality that lacks definition, with no tradition. Commodification of religion
Religious Change 2
Religion superseded by spirituality Confinement of religion to the private sphere Inaccuracy of Nietzsche: “God is dead.” Search for purpose and meaning in fragmented culture.
Language
Marx said every revolution succeeds where the language of the old order dies. Death of language in religion Secular culture can pinch words Religion must find new language in articulating and shaping culture
Changes in society
Technology has improved self expression, definition and public projection. Speed of communication has distorted time. Poverty in the modern world seen as absence of leisure.
Religion to the Rescue
Church sees nothing as inevitable
Religion is central to the transmission of cultural memory. Crisis of transmission part of cultural malaise, and especially the transmission of faith. Religious community can evangelise culture
Church to the Rescue
Church is a gift to the world. Its source is not conditional on the world. Church cannot exist for herself, can only be sent. The importance of sacrifice and thanksgiving found in the Eucharist.
Church to the Rescue
Revive importance of devotional life. Retrieve the national communal memory of faith eg pilgrimages to national sites. Life of faith is always a project, never complete
Church to the Rescue
Beautiful liturgy is the opposite of banality and ordinariness. Spirituality of Communion… we are all part of the mystical body of Christ Catholic Sacramental imagination.
Church to the rescue
Religious education, catechesis, formation To be Christian is to be a witness to Christ in the world Church promotes the good of the person and the good of society.
Evangelisation
Occurs when communities have confidence and outward looking Done with imagination and courage in the language and understanding of where people are.
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