Hermeneutic Circel
Tradition
Old Catholic Tradition
Church of 1st ten Centuries
Wider ecumenical development of the church
Today
Context
- Dutch Society: Individualised, secularised, multicultural
- Small Church: regional, church community fragmented
- Developing church: Old Catholic families and newcomers
- Emerging and declining communities
- Exercise
Exercise: What is you context?
Discuss (5 min each) with a partner your own context:
- Where do you come from?
- Family?
- Religious Background
Narrative Paradigm
Pastoral Paradigms:
Kerugmatic: Minister Verbi/Sacerdos
Therapeutic: Pastoral counselor
Presence: Pastor as neighbour
Hermeneutic/Narrative: Interpreter
Your own spirituality
Exercise: your own spirituality
Discuss with your partner (5 min each) which element of spirituality connects to your own:
- Piety
- Participation
- Hospitality
Pastoral Counseling
Old Catholic Praxis and Spirituality
Spirituality
within the hermeneutic/narrative paradigm
Piety
- Liturgy
- Personal religiosity
- Grace
- Accessibility
- Submission
- Calling
Pastoral Diagnosis
Building blocks of the narrative:
- Piety
- Participation
- Hospitality
Anamnesis: Story of suffering
- Structure
- Perspective
- Role division
- Tone
- Relationships
- Audience
Participation
- with God: Community
- with each other: Church
- liturgy
- Invitation and answer
Deliverance: help when the story stagnates
Exercise: a first diagnosis
Hospitality
- Discuss with a partner (10 min. each) a religious experience or question that's puzzling you.
- The partner will choose one of the building blocks to concentrate on.
- Exchange your findings
Pastor
Ministry
Being a Professional
Normative Professionality
- Integration of personality, profession and social environment
- Norms and values
- 'How can I be a good pastor?'
Embodied Professionality
- Craftsmenship
- Your whole person (thoughts, emotions, acts)
- Tacit knowledge
- Interaction practice based evidence and evidence based practice
- Normative Professionality
- Embodied Professionality
- Expressive Professionality
- Embedded Professionality
Expressive Professionality
Awareness of how you are effected by the other
Using these sensations during the interaction
Embedded Professionality
- Being in contact with your environment
- Internalizing your environment
- No methods, but a simple set of practiced principles
- Manager, professional and client exchange roles of guiding and following continuously
Exercise: your professionality
- Discuss with your partner (10 min each) your own professionality using the four types we discussed:
- normative
- embodied
- expressive
- embedded