Balanced Spirituality

Question 1

Who is the author of balanced spirituality

Answer 1

Donal Dorr

Question 2

Which passage does the author use to show God’s demands?

Answer 2

Micah 6:8

Question 3

What does the passage say?

Answer 3

This is what Yahweh asks of you, only this
That you act justly
That you love tenderly
That you walk humbly with your God.

Question 4

According to the author, SPIRITUALITY is not just a set of _______, but _____________.

Answer 4

a. theological theories or ideas

b. outlook and attitude

Question 5

Spirituality is an _____________ which may become _____ if we are ________________, which becomes convincing because it represents ________________.

Answer 5

a. implicit theology
b. explicit
c. reflexive and articulate
d. truth that is lived

Question 6

What are the demands in order to demonstrate a truth lived?

Answer 6

walk humbly with your God
love tendery
act justly

Question 7

Which demand calls for a personal relationship with God?

Answer 7

Walk humbly with your God

Question 8

What kind of conversion does walking humbly with god entail?

Answer 8

religious conversion

Question 9

religious conversion is the transformation of ______ to ______

Answer 9

abstract theology

living experience

Question 10

how are we able to achive religious conversion?

Answer 10

living in a sense of providence

Question 11

How do we live in a sense of providence?

Answer 11

having the awareness of the love and care of God

Question 12

Living in a sense of providence begins with____-

Answer 12

awareness of God’s care for me . You can also see that he cares for your friends

Question 13

How do you obtain the awareness that God cares for you?

Answer 13

1. peace and tranquility
2. nourished by prayer
3. sense of forgiveness
4. walk in the lordship of jesus christ
5. experience a sense of forgiveness

Question 14

what does dorr say about forgiveness?

Answer 14

not merely pardon for past sin, bu the awareness of being loved and aceepted in spite of and even in a sense because of my weaknesses, my faithlessness, my lack of single-mindedness, my inability to respond as i would wish.

Question 15

what is central to religious conversion?

Answer 15

sense of providence

Question 16

What kind of faith experience does Karl Rahner describe?

Answer 16

winter experience of faith

Question 17

Describe the winter experience of faith

Answer 17

snse of god’s care seldom reaches the degree of explicitness.

they speak of God’s plan with many reservations and hesitations

Question 18

another issue of the explicitnss of christian providence–mr. fixit (explain)

Answer 18

enthusiastic christians speak of god as though he were constantly at their disposal

Question 19

What does it mean to “walk in the lordship of jesus christ”?

Answer 19

allow jesus to be the criterion of my plans and actions

commitment to a transformation of the world in accordance witht the kingdowm values proclaimed by jesus

Question 20

Which demand calls for an INTERPERSONAL RELATINOSHIP ?

Answer 20

TO LOVE TENDERLY

Question 21

What conversion does loving tenderly entail?

Answer 21

moral conversion

Question 22

What gift does the person who is morally converted possess?

Answer 22

gift of OTHER CENTEREDNESS

• accepting the risk of getting hurt in being open
• genuinely interested in other people

Question 23

Deep listening will allow us to what?

Answer 23

Give our full free attention

Question 24

The gift of other centeredness asks us to: (2)

Answer 24

1. respect the dignity of the other person

2. have fidelity

Question 25

In respecting the dignity of the other person, we become (2)

Answer 25

1. willing to listen | 2. willing to trust in others

Question 26

this is not merely the power of reaching out, bt the power to stay with the person

Answer 26

fidelity

Question 27

the demand to act justly entails what kind of conversion?

Answer 27

political conversion

Question 28

acting justly is working towards ____justice instead of _____justice

Answer 28

a. social | b. commutative

Question 29

working for social justice means that we are struggling against the _____

Answer 29

bias in our society

Question 30

to struggle to bring justice into society means making ____

Answer 30

an option for the poor

Question 31

it is the belief that people will be rewarded in heaven if they patiently endure injustice in this life...

Answer 31

ESCAPIST people were encouraged not to challange social injustive

Question 32

it suggests that those who are "holy" or "spiritual" are not deeply involved in earthly affairs, and especially not in politi9cal matters

Answer 32

DUALIST

Question 33

what is the 3rd aspect that discourages us form a POFT?

Answer 33

total belief in god's will and everything is god given

Question 34

How does on change the outlook of not looking at the POFT

Answer 34

conversion.. change of heart

Question 35

How do we have a radical change of heart and politically converted?

Answer 35

1. understand how society works | 2. need a commitment to correct injustices

Question 36

What is the test of a genuine conversion?

Answer 36

extent to which we are working to protect the poor and the marginalized

Question 37

what does it mean for God to be just?

Answer 37

to safegurad and respect the rights of the poor, the oppressed, and the vulnerable

Question 38

we cannot be WITH poor people in real solidarity unless we are.. (2)

Answer 38

1. morally converted--- able to relate to them on a person to person basis 2. religiously converted-- convinced of god's saving presence and power

Question 39

a proper balance and integration of all three kinds of conversions is the bassis for a truly christian spirituality.

Answer 39

true

Question 40

what happens when we are not religiously converted?

Answer 40

we allow false gods to rule our lives

Question 41

what happens when moral conversion is absent?

Answer 41

we remain distrustful and closed to others

Question 42

what happens when we are not converted in the political sphere?

Answer 42

we will assume that religion is just a private or interpersonal affair and will condone with the injustices of society