Models of Theological Reflection: Theory and Praxis

Question 1

8 Models or Methods of theological Reflection

Answer 1

1. Transcendental Method (Lonergan)
2. Method of Correlation (Browning)
3. Method Ministry (Whitehead and Whitehead)
4. Service Learning (Delve, Mintz, and Stewart)
5. Shared Praxis (Groome)
6. Pastoral Circle (Holland and Henroit)
7. Narrative Storytelling (Shea)
8. Movement Toward Insight (Killen and deBeer)

Question 2

The method that addresses the human capacity for self-transcendence and the operations that constitute efforts at authentic cognition: attending, understanding, judging, deciding, and loving.

Answer 2

Transcendental Method (Lonergan)

Question 3

The method that attends to the goodness of human persons and their life situations in an effort to uncover God’s hidden presence in their experience.

Answer 3

Narrative Storytelling (Shea)

Question 4

2 gifts that cultivated within the Narrative Storytelling (Shea)

Answer 4

1. Interpathy
2. Theopathy

Question 5

The ability to enter into the other person’s story from her or his vantage point.

Answer 5

Interpathy

Question 6

The ability to view that experience with the lens of the God mystery.

Answer 6

Theopathy