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Engaging Today’s Spiritual Seeker
Copyright 2010 Neil A. Parent
The Three Dynamic “P’s” of Adult Faith Forma?on
The Person of the Learner
The Presentation of Learning
Opportunities
The Parish as a Learning
Community
The Person of the Learner The Person of the Learner
“The person for whom the sun still revolves around the earth is essentially different from the person for whom the earth is a satellite of the sun.”
-‐-‐ Carl Jung
1975 – 48 million Catholics – 385,000 Catholic marriages
2008 – 68 million Catholics – 191, 000 Catholic marriages
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• Most young Catholics are “choosing their own vision of Christianity.”
• He voiced a personal fear that the institutional church does not “have enough movement toward Jesus Christ.”
-‐ Edward Schillebeeckx, 2007 Interview in NCR
“The children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.”
Luke 16:8
The World is Changing. It’s Time Higher Education Changed with it.
“People who want a degree will no longer let tradition stand in their way….Everyone with talent who wants to develop it deserves a chance to develop it. It’s time for universities to recognize the talent of all people….It’s time for your education to come before tradition. It’s your time.
“This revolution is fostering a new tradition. One that is inclusive, not exclusive….One that gives you a choice in how you learn. One that puts you first.
“Kaplan University is a different kind of university, created for a different kind of student…[We] provide a student-‐first philosophy. So we can adapt to you, instead of expecting you to adapt to us. Every day we give you the flexibility you need to get the degree you want. Online. On campus. On your terms.
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“The experience of the divine is displacing theories about it.”
-‐ Harvey Cox, The Future of Belief
“Faith in our current context seems more likely to spring from a deeply existential place in our souls that intellect and reasoning can’t quite seem to get to.”
-‐ Peter Hitchens
“Modernity is not hostile to the faith. Modernity is the new host for the faith.”
-‐ Dr. Jose Casanova at Catholic University’s Symposium on Faith in a Secular Age.
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“Knowledge is not an object that you acquire. It’s not a mechanism that somehow you provide to the human mind. It’s actually an epiphanal moment; and I think this is true of the arts, poetry, painting, music and, I would say, also to spiritual understanding.”
-‐-‐ Dr. Arthur Zajonc, Amherst University
“We don’t need to be reminded very often of the sufferings of the world, of the needs of others, of the responsibility we have to be active and to be active with our full humanity, all capacities – mind, body, spirit – everything. And that each of them requires cultivation. Care of the body, care of the soul, care of the spirit… And the question is how do we care for each of these so that when we do act, we don’t act with partial information, with only part of who we are, but we bring all of who we are to all that the world is.” -‐-‐ Dr. Arthur Zajonc
2 Help learners create their own spiritual narrative 3 Use questioning to promote spiritual reflection