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9/14/10 1 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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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