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Extension Studies Summer School:title: Spirituality and Culture
session 1,2 & 3 ~Tues
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Opening prayer
The Lord be with youAnd also with you.
God, help us to listen;and in our listening to hear You.
God, be in our thinking:and renew our minds.
God, we will speak together:let our conversations be words in the Word.
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Learning objectives.
-By the end of the summer school you should:-
understand better what culture is understand more fully how culture affects and involves us.Understand more fully what spirituality is.have reflected on their own spirituality and cultural backgroundbegun to evaluate their own spirituality and culture in relation to each other.
http://www.Studeous.com/enroll.cfm?id=0.557300033738Password= pneuma
http://www.studeous.com/spiritculture
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Thinking about the film:
'spirituality' ?What do you make of the relationship between spirituality and culture within the film? Does anything surprise you from the film? What would a Christian spirituality for Junuh have to take account of? Could we see Bagger Vance as a Messianic /Christ figure?
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Thinking about us, ourselves: background exercise
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Culture. /kəltjə/, n ....
High culture vs 'pop' cultureclassical definition vs anthropological
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Social science definitions of culture ...
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Thinking about culture 1/3 ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Invention of transistors
Invention of gunpowder
Black death
Lisbon earthquake
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Thinking about culture 2/3...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Eating habits
queuingB
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Thinking about culture 3/3 ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Individualism
hierarchical
egalitarian
non-violent
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Thinking about culture starting with an artefact ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Cheap mobile telephony
Phone calls all over the place. Decline of landlines and payphones.
More spontaneous? Sense of connection and availability
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Thinking about culture starting with an event ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Lisbon earthquake
Loss of confidence in providence. Deism & atheism grow in plausibility
Churchgoing etc falls
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Thinking about culture starting with a practice ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Listening to music alone
Music as 'private space'
'wired for sound'
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Thinking about culture starting with a way of thinking ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
democracy
Voting, elections, plebiscites ...
Parliaments,ballot boxes,returning officers ...
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Thinking about culture starting with your idea ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
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Thinking about culture starting with your formative social experience ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
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stretch your legs for a couple of minutes ....
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Naming
involves:seeing similarity and difference: it's about ways of thinking; culture
Waysof
thinking
http://nouslife.blogspot.com/2008/06/towards-theological-reflection-on.html
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Naming & culture: God-given freedom counts againstseeing culture as inherently or fundamentally evil, and for valuing of diversity (and so against 'one culture'). In fact, given we 'image' God socially, this implies the bonds of culture are part of being in God's image, and so 'it is good'.
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H Richard Niebuhr. Christ and Culture.Charles Kraft. Christ in Culture.
Three typical positions, historically...
ChristCulture
Against
In paradox
Transformer of
In / of above
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Can you come up with examples of each of these positions?
ChristCulture
AgainstIn / of above
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All of these positions have some justification in scripture and theology.Perhaps we don't have to choose ...
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above
against Of / in
God and culture:
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What do we mean by “spirituality”?
spir·i·tu·al·i·ty \spIr-I-tʃ-u:ˈwa-lə-ti:\ nounwrite your own notes for a minute,share your ideas with a neighbour andtry to come up with the start of a definition.
On your table, come up with a definitionto share with all and write it on thelarge paper.
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spir·i·tu·al·i·ty \spIr-I-tʃ-u:ˈwa-lə-ti:\ Put definitions so far in position to be read by others.Look at hand-out with some dictionary definitions.
What ideas or aspects do you want to includein your own definition? Is there anything you might want to change or leave out?
Write a new definition to share with the whole class.
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spir·i·tu·al·i·ty \spIr-I-tʃ-u:ˈwa-lə-ti:\ New tack. Thinking about our own stuff.
When you pray, how do you name God? What title/s, image/s, metaphor/s do you normally use?
How would you explainwhat prayer is?What is your fave image
of or way of describing being a Christian? Why?
What image or metaphor do you prefer for the Church?
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spirituality
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Cultural context
spirituality
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Cultural context
theology
spirituality
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Cultural context
'liturgy' theology
spirituality
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Cultural context
'liturgy' theology
spirituality
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Cultural context
'liturgy' theology
spirituality
Film clip ...
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Printing and rag paper-making ...
Events & artefacts
Waysof
thinking
practices
culture
Cheap rag paper invented & printing using movable type
Cheap bookssolitary devotionsscripture at home
Individualism linear thinking
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Cultural context
'liturgy' theology
spirituality
Some examples ...
Cheap books
Private devotions,personal bible reading,pamphlets
Protestantideas:primacy ofscripture quiet timeetc
Ctr Lollardy etc
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Cultural context
'liturgy' theology
spirituality
Some examples ...
Cathedralsecclesiastical power
Pilgrimagevotive offerings etc
Relics, grace&mediationof Saints
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Cultural context
'liturgy' theology
spirituality
Some examples ...
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Review and recall . What new insights were there for you? Did anything surprise you? What affirmed what you already knew and what was it you already knew? What questions have arisen for you from today's session?
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http://nouslife.blogspot.com/2008/06/towards-theological-reflection-on.html