Practical Theology from the Perspective of Catholic Spirituality: A Hermeneutic of Discernment
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Marc Henri Lavallee
Abstract
This article examines practical theological hermeneutics through the lens of Catholic spirituality. Key to understanding the movement from description to analysis to revised praxis is the ways in which interpretive communities understand the connections between divine reality and human reality. In light of this, the article explores the relationship between epistemology and pneumatology found within Christian tradition by proposing an approach to practical theological hermeneutics rooted in the Ignatian practice of spiritual discernment. By doing so, this article seeks to contribute the potential contours of a distinctive Roman Catholic contribution to practical theology, and in a broader sense, show how the practice of discernment presents studies and methods in practical theology with a way of understanding connections among practical wisdom, habitus, research, and theological interpretation.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Beitrag untersucht praktisch-theologische Hermeneutik aus der Perspektive katholischer Spiritualität. Ausschlaggebend zum Begreifen des Prozesses von Beschreibung zu Analyse zu überarbeiteter Praxis ist die Art und Weise wie die Verbindung zwischen göttlicher Realität und menschlicher Realität verstanden wird. Folglich untersucht der Artikel das Verhältnis von Epistemologie und Pneumatologie in der christlichen Tradition und legt einen Zugang zu praktisch-theologischer Hermeneutik vor, die in der Ignatianischen Unterscheidung der Geister verwurzelt ist. Damit wird ein bezeichnend römisch-katholischer Beitrag zur Praktischen Theologie vorgestellt, der aufzeigt, wie die Unterscheidung der Geister am Verständnis der Verbindungen zwischen praktischer Weisheit, Habitus, Forschung und theologischer Interpretation mitwirkt.
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Research Report
- Humility: Empirical Psychological Research in Dialogue with Practical Theology – Part II
- Research Articles
- Practical Theology from the Perspective of Catholic Spirituality: A Hermeneutic of Discernment
- The Clergy Work Orientation in Transition: An Analysis of the Structure and Change in Work Orientation Among the Finnish Lutheran Clergy
- Christian Mission and Ministry in the Context of Contemporary Migration
- “We Teach Our Children to See a Human Being”: Women Transforming Religious Conflict in Indonesia
- Book Review
- Jan Peter Grevel, Mit Gott im Grünen. Eine Praktische Theologie der Naturerfahrung (Research in Contemporary Religion, Vol. 17), Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 2015, 357 pp, ISBN 9783525604519, Eur (D) 110.
- Erratum
- Erratum to: Paul Ricoeur and Robert Kegan in Unlikely Dialogue: Towards A “Narrative-Developmental” Approach to Human Identity and Its Value for Christian Religious Education
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Research Report
- Humility: Empirical Psychological Research in Dialogue with Practical Theology – Part II
- Research Articles
- Practical Theology from the Perspective of Catholic Spirituality: A Hermeneutic of Discernment
- The Clergy Work Orientation in Transition: An Analysis of the Structure and Change in Work Orientation Among the Finnish Lutheran Clergy
- Christian Mission and Ministry in the Context of Contemporary Migration
- “We Teach Our Children to See a Human Being”: Women Transforming Religious Conflict in Indonesia
- Book Review
- Jan Peter Grevel, Mit Gott im Grünen. Eine Praktische Theologie der Naturerfahrung (Research in Contemporary Religion, Vol. 17), Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 2015, 357 pp, ISBN 9783525604519, Eur (D) 110.
- Erratum
- Erratum to: Paul Ricoeur and Robert Kegan in Unlikely Dialogue: Towards A “Narrative-Developmental” Approach to Human Identity and Its Value for Christian Religious Education
