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Putting Love into Practice Prayer
Love consists in sharing what one has, and what one is, with those one loves. Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words. -Ignatius of Loyola
Summary: Love is about what someone does, is, and loves, showing itself in actions
He had the gift of tears - he would be moved to tears very often while praying or during mass
Kolvenbach Prayer
We should recall that mediocrity has no place in Ignatius’ worldview;he demands leaders in service to others in building the Kingdom of God in the marketplace of business and ideas, of service, of law and justice, of economics, theology, and all areas of human life. He urges us to work for the greater glory of God because the world desperately needs men and women of competence and conscience who generously give of themselves for others.
Main idea: We are not and cannot be mediocre, it is everyone’s responsibility to use their talents to build the kingdom of God through our vocations.
Himes Chapter 1 Problem
God is a mystery, but a caterpillar mystery (it is always changing and unfolding, you will never have the right answer)
There are Agatha Christie Mysteries, ones that have hints and clues to be solved, and there are caterpillar mysteries (God)
Himes Chapter 1 Question
What is the LEAST wrong way to describe God (we will never be able to fully describe God, but we can find the least wrong way to)
Himes Chapter 1 Thesis
The least wrong way to describe God is agape
Himes Chapter 1 Sources
Agatha Christie, Lewis Carroll, the Good Samaritan, Prodigal Son, Beatitudes, Trinity, Nicene Creed
Parable of the Prodigal Son
About agape, God’s love is not based on anything we do or don’t do, it is irrational and exceptional. We don’t deserve it, can’t ear it, yet be receive it
Parable of the Good Samaritan
“orthopraxis proceeds orthodoxy” right practice comes before right teaching and right thinking. We should not walk around preaching that God is love if we do not practice it
Wadell Chapter 5
We understand ourselves when we understand the imago dei
Wadell Chapter 5 Thesis
Every person is made in the image and likeness of God, so we have a responsibility to do God’s work
Sister Prejean + Robert Willie
Robert Willie was a rapist and a murderer, but still a son of God.
Imago Dei
It is the challenge of the Christian person to see that we are all made in the imago Dei (free will + intelligence according to Thomas Aquinas), and Robert Willie represents this challenge. it is not possible to lose our human dignity and imago dei, but doing bad things will start to eclipse our qualities. In order to recognize these qualities in others, we have to first recognize it in ourselves. It impacts us personally, socially (vocation), environmentally, and intellectually
Vocation
The particular way we live out our godliness in the world
We are all made in the image dei, but in our own particular ways, so our vocation is our service to the world by revealing something of God that no one else can
Other creatures have a trace of the imago dei, but not as much as humans
Himes’ 3 Questions of Vocations
Does it give you joy? (joy - the abiding sense of rightness of how one is living their life, endures through difficulty and unhappiness)
Are you any good at it? (If you enjoy it but are not good at it, it is just a hobby)
Does anyone need you to do it? (Does it benefit others?)
Career vs. Vocation
Careers are jobs done for money, vocations can be a career, but aren’t always
We can have multiple vocations in our lives, but there is one vocation that takes priority and has the last call
Anthropocene Period
Our current era, the first moment in history in which human activity is changing the planet
Stewardship
A way of thinking that will get us out of what is got us into (that humans are different/above). Basically, we thought we were better so we ruined the earth and now we have a responsibility to use our difference from other creatures to fix the earth
4 Philosophical Principles of Bioethics
Autonomy - self governance/rule
Beneficience - always acting in the patient’s best interest
Nonmaleficence - do not unjust harm
Justice - to render unto each their due
Himes Chapter 2
Incarnation - God acknowledging his humanity in Jesus
To be a creature means to have a creator, we did not create ourselves. This idea of creatureliness scares us because we have no control, so we do things to avoid our creatureliness
We are dust and unto dust we will return
Himes Chapter 2 Problem
We are creatures but we are frightened of this fact
Himes Chapter 2 Question
How should we understand our creatureliness?
Himes Chapter 2 Thesis
A creature is fundamentally good
It is good that we are not in control, because our mistakes can be forgiven
All of our experiences are human and through being human they are good
Proven through the incarnation of god into Jesus, as God thinks that creatureliness and humanity is so Good that he became a human in Jesus
Jesus had to resist the temptation to escape his humanity and creatureliness, despite all that he went through, teaching us to resist temptation
We have to embrace our creatureliness in order to liberate ourselves
Mistakes are a part of life, but we must learn and grow from them
The Our Father Prayer
About letting God be God and letting us be God’s creatures
Types of Love
Humans are loving because love comes from God and returns from God
Agape
Eros
Philia
Goodwill is wanting something that is good for others, loving someone even if you do not like them
Agape
Pure, unconditional, overflowing, love of God which seeks nothing in return
MLK Jr was a preacher and a leader of the civil rights movement, received his PhD in theology and loved his neighbors + enemies as a Christian should
He defined love as creative, understanding, redeeming, goodwill for all persons
To go beyond logic and try to understand the reason behind someone’s actions
Eros
A love of desire, a yearning for satisfaction that seeks fulfillment
Philia
Reciprocal/mutual love, love for family and friends
Aristotle’s Three Categories of Friendship
Utility - based on usefulness of one person to another
Pleasure - mutual enjoyment of shared activities
Excellence - highest form of friendship, both parties like each other and seek virtue together (rare, but necessary)
Karl Rahner S.J
(Society of Jesus)
Spirituality vs. Religious
This brought together the theology of Aquinas with the existential philosophy of his day
Spiritual - loving something based on faith and following it, doing things with your soul based on beliefs
Religious - Physical, following a religion and living life according to it
Karl Rahner S.J Question + Answer
Can you be spiritual without being religious?
Yes
Religion is engaging in the task of trying to connect with our spiritual existence
It is our innermost dynamic to be spiritual, it is not a choice, because the holy spirit is the innermost dynamic of the world and the mysteries of the world are the Holy Spirit at work
Theological Anthropology
A human is _______ ← must apply to all people at all times (historically and in all stages of life)
The 10 Tenents of Theological Anthropology
A creature - finite, dependent, have a creator
Good - ontologically, because we are created by God (there is also ethical good)
Sinful - personal sin are results of personal choices, but original sin comes from Adam and Eve (there is also social sin)
Free - we can say yes or no to God
Loving - the things that we love tell us who we are, drive us, and our ability to love relies on God
Mystery - we will never truly know ourselves, every question leads to a new one
Relational - we will not survive without relationship (we require attention and care)
Historical - we all have individual pasts and experiences
Malleable - we hold on hope until the end, changing, shaping, and being formed as our lives progress
Spiritual - moments of mystery that reveal the spirit in our lives (spiritual is what we are, not what we do)
Capital Punishment
The use of execution as a form of punishment for crimes
John Rawls wrote extensively about justice - go behind the veil of ignorance
Neuroplasticity - the ability of our brain to develop, alter, change, and be changed
The Catholic Church’s Opinion on Capital Punishment
The change to punishment
Historically, it has been justified because the criminal could be a threat to society
Pope Francis changed the opinion, banning capital punishment because a person’s dignity is not taken away after committing heinous crimes, and we now have stronger prisons and security
That the change occurred
Two extremes: the church never changes or the church always changes
The church changes, but in accordance to principles of discernment - John T Noonan
Evidence against capital punishment
60% of people support life without parole over the death penalty
Although Black Americans make up 13.6% of the national population, they make up 33.9% of all people executed on death row and 41% of death row prisoners
There have been 195 exonerations since 1975, so there is a high rate of error
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