Reviewer no. 3: Christian Commitment1. CHRISTIAN COMMITMENT as a Course
a. normative method used by Theology 141 in effecting social changes - Pastoral Cycle b. model of Christian Commitment - Jesus Christ c. The critical reflection offered by Theology 141 on the Philippine Contemporary society is done in the light of the Scriptures and the teachings of the Church. d. Action on behalf of justice is a constitutive dimension in the preaching of the Good News. e. Solidarity - intimately bonded with the common good, universal destination of goods, equality among men and peoples, and with the peace in the world 2. THEMES OF JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION a. author - Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenback, S.J b. service of faith through the promotion of Justice - mission of the Society of Jesus that must be integrated as a priority of Jesuit work? c. to form men and women for others - purpose of Jesuit education d. Leaders-in-service - goal of Jesuit Education since the sixteenth century e. World-affirming - Ignatian world-view that says that to know the world better is to know God better f. St. Ignatius’ sense of the goodness and beauty of all things leads a person to be a responsible steward of creation. g. Comprehensive - Ignatian world-view that calls for a genuinely humanistic education h. In the Ignatian view, to become more fully human is to become more fully divine. i. St. Ignatius points to God's love as more powerful than sin. j. Discernment - Ignatian world-view that stresses the need to know the world, examine attitudes, challenge assumptions, and analyze motives k. Altruistic - Ignatian world-view that adopts the mind and heart of Christ l. Jesuit education is not neutral in terms of values. m. Value - means as a price, as something dear, precious or worthwhile n. values are anchored to - Head, Heart, and Hand o. The service of faith through the promotion of justice remains the Jesuit education’s major apostolic focus. p. Spiritual Growth - value embedded in the ADDU Mission Statement as a CATHOLIC School q. Faith-Based Social Involvement - value embedded in the ADDU Mission Statement as a JESUIT School 3. Depth, Universality and Learned Ministry: Challenges to Jesuit Higher Education Today a. author - Rev. Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, SJ. b. the three distinct but related challenges to the mission of Jesuit Education - promoting depth of thought and imagination, re-discovering and implementing our “universality” in the Jesuit higher education sector, and renewing the Jesuit commitment to learned ministry. c. The depth of thought and imagination is the response of Jesuit Education to the challenge of globalization of superficiality. d. Imagination grasps reality while fantasy is a flight from reality. e. Ignatian Contemplation - pedagogy that can exercise depth of thought and imagination f. The meaning of “depth of thought and imagination” in the Ignatian tradition involves a profound engagement with the real. g. The starting point of the “depth of thought and imagination” will always be what is real. h. “A university becomes a proyecto social” means that a university should insert itself into a society, not just to train professionals, but in order to become a cultural force advocating and promoting truth, virtue, development, and peace in that society. i. act as a universal body with a universal mission - the challenge of the positive result of globalization to Jesuit Education j. exercise depth of thought and imagination - challenge of globalization of superficiality to Jesuit Education k. three classic functions of the university - Universities are places of instruction, University of research, Universities are centers of service l. Universities are places of instruction - university that stressed the need to promote depth of thought and imagination m. Universities are centers of service - university that stressed the need to move more decisively towards international networks focused on important supranational concerns n. University of research - university that stressed the genuine search for truth and knowledge o. two “ism’s” which exclude the possibility of fruitful dialogue and effective cooperation between reason and religious faith as pointed out by Pope Benedict - secularism and fundamentalism p. author of “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” - Pope John Paul II q. meaning of Ex Corde Ecclesiae - From the heart of the Church r. essential points of Jesuit Education - Teaching Imagination, Creativity, Critical analysis 4. Liberation Theology a. author - Gustavo Gutierrez b. important questions to understand our faith asked in the article What does it mean to do theology? What is the meaning of poverty in biblical revelation? How can we witness resurrection in a context of poverty and death? c. For Liberation Theology, the mystery of God reveals itself through prayer and solidarity with the poor. d. In the framework of theology of liberation, the two phases (first act and second act) imply a lifestyle, a way of being and of becoming a disciple of Jesus. e. St. Anselm - said “fides quaerein intellectum” f. Every theology inquires into the meaning of God’s word for us at the present historical moment. g. The deeper meaning of what we call “total liberation” is, in the final analysis, the acceptance of the kingdom of life. 5. Why the Preferential Option for the Poor is not Optional? a. The Latin American Bishops during a meeting in Puebla in 1979 said that it was “from the poor” that we would arrive at a universal truth that “all men are born equal.” b. The article tells stories of self-sacrifice and courage of neighbors who saved one another from harm’s way c. The article that tells the story of the three elderly women rescued by a high-school boy who swam back and forth to their flooded apartment and carried each of them to safety on his back, and then left them in search of others. A week later, his body was discovered downstream d. year and place where the phrase “Preferential Option for the Poor” (POP) originated - 1979, Latin American bishops in Puebla, Mexico e. reasons on why the phrase P.O.P is immediately given attention to f. steps in making preferential option for the poor g. The article that says an option for the poor does not mean that God loves poor people more than the rich people 6. The Notion of Social Theology a. The starting point of Christian Social Theology b. Church document that says “God meets and calls us in the world and its history in the reality of our present life.” c. Church document that starts the reflection with the following statement: “the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as well” |
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