Compassionate Imagination/Re-Existing/Hope

Embracing a Deliberate Turn to the Promptings of the Spirit for a Synodal Church

Bibliographic Data

ID3357974
AuthorsSimonmary Asese Aihiokhai (0000-0003-0150-8888, University of Portland, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue10
Pages1245
Publication date2023-09-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel14101245
OpenAlexW4387170044
LanguageEN
References cited1

Pope Francis invites the Church to turn to the peripheries of society as the loci of saturated vision and grace, if it is to embody the grace of synodality. This work makes a claim that a synodal church that turns to the peripheries of the world ought to embody three markers that exude the fullness of being church in the world. These include the praxes of compassionate imagination, re-existing as a Pentecost church, and being an embodiment of ritualized hope for all. A turn to the Spirit-centered gift of compassionate imagination is itself a deliberate embrace of the messiness of life where the beauty of the sound of God's voice is heard and encountered. It involves an embrace of the summons of the Spirit that is found at the peripheries of the world and to embody abundant life for all in a manner that upends the dynamics of empire manipulations. To do this effectively, the Church ought to become an embodiment of hope in all its ways of being in the world. An embodiment of hope that is grounded in solidarity with others must necessarily entail the praxis of suspension of judgment

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Multitude · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Solidarity · Summons · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

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