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What are we doing here?" Local theologies of mission from a shared Catholic parish in the Midwest
Brett C Hoover
Paperback. ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing 2011-09-09.
ISBN 9781243817105
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The demographic transformation of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States by immigration from Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands provides a social context for this study of a shared parish in the Midwestern United States. Shared parishes---where two or more cultures enjoy distinct masses and ministries but share the facilities---constitute a common local response across the United States to this demographic transformation. This dissertation focuses on the single parish in a small city dramatically altered by immigration largely from Mexico. This study of one shared parish makes use of a theological methodology called participatory witness (ParWit). It applies community-based research principles (such as in participatory action research, or PAR) to ethnographic and congregational studies research. With the cooperation of parishioners over ten months, this research process elicited theologies of mission elaborated around five themes deemed important to the practical life of the parish in its historical, cultural, and ecclesial context. The themes are: 1) social order, 2) worship, 3) faith formation in the Latino/a community, 4) hospitality in the Euro-American community, and 5) unity and integration. The author refines these themes in dialogue with larger church teaching and theology based on initial reactions to such teaching and theology he previously uncovered in the parish. In contrast to most scholarly studies of "parallel congregations" or "multiethnic congregations, " this study focuses attention on the intercultural dynamics that a shared parish creates between its distinct communities. This intercultural focus---as well as an additional attentiveness to peculiarly Catholic connections between local parish and the larger church---demonstrates how the investigation of contemporary Catholic parishes requires frameworks and methodologies beyond those commonly in use in congregational studies. Moreover, this study also articulates a local and practical theology of mission, a still somewhat underappreciated approach to mission within missiology Finally, it begins to expand upon communion ecclesiology as a language and approach superior to multiculturalism in addressing cultural diversity in the church
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Liknande böckerFormer Churches in England, Including: St George's Church, Portobello, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Northgate Hall, St Mary's Church, Bathwick, Congregational Chapel, Derby, St. Mary's Centre, Chester, Woodhey Chapel, Faddiley, Chadkirk ChapeleBook 2011
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