Out of Chaos: Refounding Religious CongregationsPaulist Press, 1988 - 201 Seiten Stresses the fact that refounding persons are essential for the revitalization of religious life. |
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... death is little more . " Certainly , the death of provinces , or of even entire congregations , is now a very real possibility for many of us . Congregations cease to exist historically for several reasons . Governments or the Church ...
... death is little more . " Certainly , the death of provinces , or of even entire congregations , is now a very real possibility for many of us . Congregations cease to exist historically for several reasons . Governments or the Church ...
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... death must surely occur . If we accept the challenge , however , then we turn to God fully acknowl- edging our own chaotic weakness . And St. Paul tells us that this is where God acts most powerfully : So I shall be very happy to make ...
... death must surely occur . If we accept the challenge , however , then we turn to God fully acknowl- edging our own chaotic weakness . And St. Paul tells us that this is where God acts most powerfully : So I shall be very happy to make ...
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... death " ( Phil 3:10 ) . Thus , we need to guard against a purely human way of looking at the refounding of religious congregations . On this point our secularist cul- tures can aid and frustrate refounding at the same time . Take , for ...
... death " ( Phil 3:10 ) . Thus , we need to guard against a purely human way of looking at the refounding of religious congregations . On this point our secularist cul- tures can aid and frustrate refounding at the same time . Take , for ...
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... death has meaning through Christ's death . There is also a polarization of meaning in a symbol , that is , a symbol can enshrine opposite meanings at precisely the same time , e.g. , the cross symbolizes both the death and resurrection ...
... death has meaning through Christ's death . There is also a polarization of meaning in a symbol , that is , a symbol can enshrine opposite meanings at precisely the same time , e.g. , the cross symbolizes both the death and resurrection ...
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... death of a dear friend , a mid - life crisis ( i.e. , the culture of early adulthood is no longer meaningful and the culture of middle adulthood has yet to be interiorized ) , the sudden and unprepared exposure to a significantly ...
... death of a dear friend , a mid - life crisis ( i.e. , the culture of early adulthood is no longer meaningful and the culture of middle adulthood has yet to be interiorized ) , the sudden and unprepared exposure to a significantly ...
Inhalt
Types of Refounding Persons | 94 |
The Qualities of the Refounding Persons | 95 |
A Human Qualities | 96 |
Insights of Fowler | 98 |
C Spiritual Qualities | 101 |
Summary | 111 |
Out of Chaos The Role of Religious Superiors | 112 |
Difficulties Confronting Superiors | 113 |
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Myth Purification and the Intrapreneur | 32 |
Tensions | 33 |
Qualities of Intrapreneurs | 34 |
The Role of Management in Supporting Intrapreneurs | 38 |
Corporate Culture Resistance to Change | 42 |
Summary | 44 |
Biblical Calls to Refounding Out of Chaos | 46 |
The Biblical Notion of Chaos | 47 |
The Regenerative Myth of the Israelite People | 50 |
ReCreating Mythology Demands Radical Conversion | 54 |
CovenantCulture Refounding People | 57 |
Summary | 61 |
Refounding Religious Life | 63 |
Into Chaos Religious Life Since Vatican II | 65 |
The Mythology of Religious Life | 66 |
Mythological Drift and Distortion before Vatican II | 68 |
The Marists | 71 |
Myth Management | 74 |
Concluding Reflections | 76 |
Chaos and Reactions Since Vatican II | 77 |
Summary | 86 |
Out of Chaos The Role of Refounding Persons | 88 |
Defining the Refounding Person | 89 |
The Reformist Role of the Refounding Person | 92 |
Theological Reflections on the Role of Superior | 115 |
Guidelines | 117 |
Action in the Long Term | 126 |
Summary | 134 |
Chaos and Denial Facilitating and Obstructing the Refounding Person | 136 |
Insights of Mary Douglas | 137 |
Power Obedience and Mission | 142 |
Models of Religious Provinces | 143 |
Summary | 150 |
Congregational Chapters and Refounding | 151 |
Aims of General Chapters | 152 |
Views of Participants | 153 |
What Do They Mean? | 155 |
Explanation | 156 |
Uses and Abuses of Consensus and Conflict Models | 157 |
ConsensusConflict Model Analysis and the Church | 158 |
Evaluation of Participants Comments on General Chapters | 160 |
Refounding and the Implementation of Chapter Policies | 162 |
The Jesuits | 163 |
The Marists | 164 |
Summary | 166 |
CaseStudy Refounding a Religious Congregation | 168 |
Apostolic Community of PriestsBrothers | 169 |
Local Recruitment and Loss of Brothers | 171 |
Stages of Refounding the Marists within Oceania | 173 |
Summary | 182 |
Conclusion | 184 |
Notes | 188 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action administration apostolic archetypal become brothers challenge chaos charism Christ Church commitment conflict model congregational culture congregational prophets consensus conversion corporate cultures creation myth creation mythology creative imagination darkness demands denial directional myth discernment process discover emerge evangelization example existing experience faith fear feel Fiji founder founding myth gift Gospel Grid heart Holy Spirit human identity implementers individuals initial inner innovative insights intrapreneurs Israelites Jesuits Jesus justice leaders leadership listen live Lord major superior marginalization Marist meaning ment minor refounding mission mythology ness one's Pacific Islands participants pastoral needs pathfinders position power potential poverty prayer priests problem solvers programs province provincial chapters qualities reality reform refounding persons refounding process religious congregations Religious Provinces relive renewal revitalization ritual role social Society of Mary stage status quo structures supranationalism symbols T.S. Eliot task tion Tutu values Vatican Vatican II Yahweh
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 92 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Seite 113 - A value is a conception, explicit or implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristic of a group, of the desirable which influences the selection from available modes, means, and ends of action" (Clyde Kluckhohn, "Values and Value Orientations," in Talcott Parsons and Edward A.
Seite 92 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 54 - While the Church is bound to give witness to justice, it recognizes that everyone who ventures to speak to people about justice must first be just in their eyes.
Seite 167 - Though your sins are like scarlet. They shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson. They shall be as wool.
Seite 88 - The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren — him you shall heed...
Seite 48 - It is as though they are being reduced or ground down to a uniform condition to be fashioned anew and endowed with additional powers to enable them to cope with their new station in life.
Seite 2 - MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me ! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, 5 Which in the very thought renews the fear.
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