The Living Human Document
Constructive Narrative Theology
Canonical Narrative Theology
Corporate Theological Reflection
Correlation
Praxis
Contextual Theologies
100
In this book of the Bible, we sing the earliest forms of theological reflection.
What is the book of Psalms?
100
Since we considering Jesus as the sacrament of G-d, we can therefore refer to his life as this, a story through which we glimpse the transcendent through the tangible.
What is a parable?
100
St. Paul’s account of the Last Supper gives us a profound vision of a people formed through the practice of the this.
What is the Eucharist?
100
St. Paul gives us this corporeal metaphor used often in corporate theological reflection.
What is the Body of Christ?
100
This man engaged the Greeks and their culture in correlational theological reflection.
Who is St. Paul?
100
These two ruminants are symbolically associated with the Judgment of the Nations, the Biblical basis of "Theology-in-Action."
What are sheep and goats?
100
This significant Christian event, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, is the biblical basis of "Theology in the Vernacular."
What is Pentecost?
200
These, written back and forth between Heloise and Abelard, are an example of 12th century living human documents for TR.
What are letters?
200
"Theopetics," a key word in Constructive Narrative Theology, refers to knowing G-d through revelatory these.
What are stories?
200
This saint's imaginative Spiritual Exercises allow people to engage in Canonical Narrative Theology.
Who is St. Ignatius?
200
This Saint's Rule, ordering time and space, forms people into the Body of Christ.
Who is St. Benedict?
200
Our school's namesake who engaged the voices of philosophers and other faiths in correlational theological reflection?
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
200
This, meaning right belief, is valued less than orthopraxis in theology-in-action.
What is orthodoxy?
200
Catholic missionaries to this continent give us an early example of contextual theological reflection.
What is North America?
300
This digital platform encompasses a vast array of living human documents like blogging and podcasting.
What is the internet?
300
J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and this man, the author of the Narnia series, all arguably explore theology through narrative.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
300
This Swiss theologian, whose name rhymes with Snarl Heart, lifted up the strange world of the Bible and its power to resist catastrophes like World War.
Who is Karl Barth?
300
This process, when applied to a congregation and not the Bible, provides a means of corporate theological reflection.
What is exegesis?
300
The alliterative initials of the feminist theologian who engages extra-theological voices to affirm the full humanity of women.
What are R R R?
300
This theology, originating in Latin America, gives us the term "the preferential option of the poor."
What is Liberation?
300
These people opened Vincent Donovan to contextual theological reflection?
Who are the Masai?
400
Prayer art or art expression—an example of life-turned-into-this—shows us the child capable of theological reflection.
What is text?
400
This woman's Great Lessons inform the constructive narratives used in CGS.
Who is Maria Montessori?
400
This baking ingredient provides children in the atrium a concrete way to enter G-d's story.
What is yeast?
400
One of two Biblical metaphors used in CGS to engage in corporate theological reflection.
What is the Good Shepherd or the True Vine?
400
The friend of Sofia Cavalletti who introduced her to the pedagogy of Montessori and the culture of children.
Who is Gianna Gobbi?
400
This friend of Sofia preferred the analogy of the True Vine over that of a Christmas tree when describing the moral life.
Who is Mongillo?
400
This word, meaning good news, gets inculturated into CGS materials.
What is 'gospel'?
500
This professor had us write our spiritual autobiographies so that we could engage in theological reflection using a living human document.
Who is Ann Garrido?
500
In having us write our own midrashim of the story of Creation and Jonah chapter 6, this professor had us engage in Constructive Narrative Theology.
Who is Rabbi Barry Friedman?
500
One of two professors at Aquinas to teach us about the allegorical sense of the Bible, ignored by the practice of Canonical Narrative Theology.
Who is Dr. Bannister or Dr. Abril?
500
The professor who introduced us to the Analysis of Social Culture, an aspect of Corporate Theological Reflection.
Who is Carolyn Wright?
500
The name of the dog of the professor who introduced us to correlational theological reflection involving the wisdom from tradition, culture, and experience.
Who is Grizzly?
500
This professor, not shown in the slide show, would be most closely associated with praxis given that she teaches pastoral ministry.
Who is Dr. Huang?
500
This professor, for whom we pray for full recovery, taught us first about contextual theological reflection.
Who is Dr. Chase?