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Intergenerational Dialogue and Inquiry for Collective Healing, Social Justice and Communal Well-Being: A Reflection on Conceptions, Processes and Practices
Get PDFThis paper explores how intergenerational dialogue and inquiry (IDI) may help break the silence about past brutality and contribute to collective healing, social justice and communal well-being. The specific historical contexts that it is concerned with are transatlantic slavery and colonisation, and the continued legacies of contemporary racism. Global communities impacted by these tragedies often experience silence between the generations about the trauma resulting from the atrocity, often exacerbated by present day discrimination. In considering the case study of IDI in communities on four continents, this paper further analyses the processes involved in breaking the cycles of silence, and remembering cultural wisdom and place-based resilience. It thus highlights practices such as trust-building, active listening, questioning, re-storying, deep dialogue and co-inquiry across the generations as key to understanding systemic dehumanisation and re-imagining the structural conditions necessary for the flourishing of all
A Sapiential Maxim on Forgiveness in Proverbs 17:9
Get PDFChristian discussion on forgiveness often begins from its theological dimension. This essay argues that an anthropological setting of this inevitable human reality will benefit Christians and non-Christians. We are social beings and we are continually interacting with others in order to sustain our innate social character. Our social circle diminishes if we fail to forgive and avoid our offenders. Proverbs 17:9, which is studied in this paper, persuasively teaches the anthropological reason to forgive others their offences. It is discovered that Christian dialectics on forgiveness is both vertical and horizontal, and the two dimensions are inseparable
Augustine and Jerome: 2 Distinct Views of Peter and Paul
No full textThis project dove into a conversation between Sts. Augustine and Jerome about Peter and Paul\u27s disagreement at Antioch. The effects of each saint\u27s beliefs about the incident impacts the role of papal authority in the Church, the use of Scripture, and how the Church is to see itself in the modern world