ReEd Quiz/PreLim

CYNICISM

is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of others' motives.

SKEPTICISM

– is generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more putative instances of knowledge which are asserted to be mere belief or dogma.

INDIFFERENCE

lack of interest, concern, or sympathy.

 

Trolling

is a specific kind of political activity that is marked by a refusal to participate in the kind of productive exchange of ideas that marks democratic politics

TROLLING

. Instead of engaging in activity marked by democratic principles of reciprocity, accommodation, and inclusion, trolls actively work to dominate and control the conversations on any given site.

Post Truth Era

- is a philosophical and political concept for "the disappearance of shared objective standards for truth"[1] and the "circuitous slippage between facts or alternative facts, knowledge, opinion, belief, and truth".[

Post Truth Era

one of the many signs of the current brokenness pervading the world and the Philippines of today

Theology For believers

, theology acts as faith seeking understanding

International Theological Commission

describes theology as scientia Dei (Science of Faith

Theology as scientia dei

theology aims to understand in a rational and systematic manner the saving truth of God.

Theology for non believers

is a form of appreciation of the capacity of human beings to acquire faith.

Maoism

provides us young people in our present situation with four essential things:

 

Fr. John Fuellenbach

his stand on Filipino Youth Communist Radicals :

provides us young people in our present situation with four essential things:

Maoism

provides us young people in our present situation with four essential things:

strangers

the banquet of transcendence who never actually meet or converse

Rivals

   vying for the allegiance of the serious seekers

Partners

, two dimensions of a single enterprise 

Spirituality

refers to the logic, or character, or consistent quality of a person’s or a group’s pattern of living insofar as it is measured before some kind of ultimate reality.”

Religion

refers to a set of beliefs, values, and practices that together identify what ultimate reality is and help establish the relationship that obtains between this ultimate reality and the practitioners.”

Spirituality

is “the experience of conscious involvement in the project of life-integration through self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives.”

Christian Spirituality

is “the lived experience of Christian faith.”

Strangers
Rivals
Partners

Relationship of Spirituality and Religion according to Sandra Schneiders

Viritas

Within Augustinian spirituality, one important aspiration is the understanding of the truth of oneself, and in that, the truth of God: “O God, let me know myself, so I may know you.”

Unitas

There must be openness and willingness for collaboration amongst members of the community, as well as with those engaged by the community (Augustinian community).

Caritas

For Augustine, love is the why and how of our knowledge

Caritas
Viritas
Unitas

Spirituality according to St. Augustine

Dwelling Spirituality

Its emphasis is the reliability of traditional religious institutions, and the living out of person’s spiritual lives within the traditionally drawn bounds of such institutions.

 

Seeking Spirituality

Without a religion dictating them what ultimate value to follows, those who adopted the seeking spirituality worked to find paths to ultimate value on their own terms.

Practicing Spirituality

It is of great importance to recover the communal dimension of spirituality that can help ground its direction. This leads directly to the final kind of spirituality.

Practical Theology

is a strand of theological thought that attempts to heal the division between theory and practice that has marred theological discourse throughout the years.

Practical Theology

aims at the harmonization of the knowledge of the faith, and the practice of the faith

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis

are not made separate, but two united elements of the same whole.

Orthodoxy

- is adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion.

Orthopraxy

is correct conduct, both ethical and liturgical, as opposed to faith or grace.

Dwelling SPirituality
Seeking Spirituality
Practicing Spirituality

Spirituality according to WIlliam Spohn

Integration

Inculturation

Community-Formation

 

Three Distinct Features of Practical Theology in the Philippine Setting:

Faith

the acceptance of the word of another, trusting in what the other is saying because he is convinced that the other is honest and is telling the truth. 

The basic motive of all faith is the authority and integrity of someone who is speaking.

Faith for Christians

faith is NOT simply “believing in God”; it is our personal response as disciples of Christ.

Faith

enables a person to believe that what God has revealed is true, not because it can be understood by reason, but because of the authority of God who can neither deceive. 

Believing
Doing
Entrusting

Dimensions of Faith

Believing

Faith involves our basic convictions as Christians. It is not mere “head knowledge”.

Believing

 Refer to a cognitive activity, primarily related to the mind, the intellect and reason

Doing

Christ himself taught: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven” (Mt 7:21).

Entrusting

  Beyond believing and doing, faith is entrusting oneself into God’s hands.

Doctrine

leads people more deeply into relationship  with God.

Doctrine

invites people into friendship with God by  proclaiming what the church knows about God.

Morals

refers to the doing aspect of the faith.

Love

The theological virtue associated with believing is  the virtue of

Worhsip

refers to the trusting aspect of the faith.

Karl Rahner

Explains that through the church doctrines, the church is enabled to the real problems of real people, both within ht echurch and beyond it

Karl Rahmer

The second vatican council was much influenced by his theology and his understanding of the catholic faith

Creed

is an organic summary of the essential

elements of the Church’s Faith

Alasdair MacIntyre

According to ____________, in the secular sense, practices can include scientific inquiry, musical artistry, and even expertise at games such as chess

Peter Van Ness

characterizes spirituality as: “the quest for attaining an optimal relationship between what one truly is and everything that is; it is a quest that can be furthered by adopting appropriate spiritual practices and by participating in relevant communal rituals.”