Out of Chaos: Refounding Religious CongregationsStresses the fact that refounding persons are essential for the revitalization of religious life. |
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Contents
Types of Refounding Persons | 94 |
The Qualities of the Refounding Persons | 95 |
A Human Qualities | 96 |
Insights of Fowler | 98 |
C Spiritual Qualities | 101 |
Summary | 111 |
Out of Chaos The Role of Religious Superiors | 112 |
Difficulties Confronting Superiors | 113 |
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Myth Purification and the Intrapreneur | 32 |
Tensions | 33 |
Qualities of Intrapreneurs | 34 |
The Role of Management in Supporting Intrapreneurs | 38 |
Corporate Culture Resistance to Change | 42 |
Summary | 44 |
Biblical Calls to Refounding Out of Chaos | 46 |
The Biblical Notion of Chaos | 47 |
The Regenerative Myth of the Israelite People | 50 |
ReCreating Mythology Demands Radical Conversion | 54 |
CovenantCulture Refounding People | 57 |
Summary | 61 |
Refounding Religious Life | 63 |
Into Chaos Religious Life Since Vatican II | 65 |
The Mythology of Religious Life | 66 |
Mythological Drift and Distortion before Vatican II | 68 |
The Marists | 71 |
Myth Management | 74 |
Concluding Reflections | 76 |
Chaos and Reactions Since Vatican II | 77 |
Summary | 86 |
Out of Chaos The Role of Refounding Persons | 88 |
Defining the Refounding Person | 89 |
The Reformist Role of the Refounding Person | 92 |
Theological Reflections on the Role of Superior | 115 |
Guidelines | 117 |
Action in the Long Term | 126 |
Summary | 134 |
Chaos and Denial Facilitating and Obstructing the Refounding Person | 136 |
Insights of Mary Douglas | 137 |
Power Obedience and Mission | 142 |
Models of Religious Provinces | 143 |
Summary | 150 |
Congregational Chapters and Refounding | 151 |
Aims of General Chapters | 152 |
Views of Participants | 153 |
What Do They Mean? | 155 |
Explanation | 156 |
Uses and Abuses of Consensus and Conflict Models | 157 |
ConsensusConflict Model Analysis and the Church | 158 |
Evaluation of Participants Comments on General Chapters | 160 |
Refounding and the Implementation of Chapter Policies | 162 |
The Jesuits | 163 |
The Marists | 164 |
Summary | 166 |
CaseStudy Refounding a Religious Congregation | 168 |
Apostolic Community of PriestsBrothers | 169 |
Local Recruitment and Loss of Brothers | 171 |
Stages of Refounding the Marists within Oceania | 173 |
Summary | 182 |
Conclusion | 184 |
Notes | 188 |
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 92 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 113 - A value is a conception, explicit or implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristic of a group, of the desirable which influences the selection from available modes, means, and ends of action" (Clyde Kluckhohn, "Values and Value Orientations," in Talcott Parsons and Edward A.
Page 92 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 54 - While the Church is bound to give witness to justice, it recognizes that everyone who ventures to speak to people about justice must first be just in their eyes.
Page 167 - Though your sins are like scarlet. They shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson. They shall be as wool.
Page 88 - The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren — him you shall heed...
Page 48 - It is as though they are being reduced or ground down to a uniform condition to be fashioned anew and endowed with additional powers to enable them to cope with their new station in life.
Page 2 - MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me ! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, 5 Which in the very thought renews the fear.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Out of Chaos: Refounding Religious Congregations |
| Author | Gerald A. Arbuckle |
| Publisher | Paulist Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0809130041, 9780809130047 |
| Length | 201 pages |
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