Keeping It Real
Decolonizing Christian Inter-Religious Practice as an Exercise in a Practical Theology of the Cross
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3471982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela R Mccarroll (0000-0003-2668-970X, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 203 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10030203 |
| OpenAlex | W2922260570 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
What is suffering? What is hope?" These are questions I have asked for years with classes full of students training for Christian ministry. Now, I ask these questions in classes with Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and 'spiritual but not religious' students, all in training to be spiritual care therapists. The institution where I serve is in the process of transitioning from a mono-religious Christian theological College to a centre for multi/inter-religious education. Those of us who teach in the program are disrupted continually by pedagogical challenges that both perplex and energize us. The multi-religious classroom decolonizes spaces long dominated by Christian theological discourse. Course content yields to a fluid and open-ended, interactive process. My "mastery of the field" gives way to an ongoing practice of surrender-a kenotic self-emptying-that usually leaves me shaken in overwhelming awe or angst-ridden questioning. Through a practical theological methodology that begins with lived human experience, this paper shares an autoethnographic account of my experience as a teacher in the multi-religious classroom. It presents key dimensions of the theology of the cross as an interpretive framework and closes by examining how the theology of the cross offers a practical Christian theological reflective process to empower decolonizing pedagogy
Buddhism · Christian ministry · Judaism · Pedagogy · Political science · Religious education · Sociology · Spiritual practice · Spirituality · Surrender · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |