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Sep 17, 2021 · Theological reflection, or TR, is an ancient idea. There are many ways to do it, but one of the simplest is the method known as the Pastoral Cycle or Spiral. Developed back in the 1980s and influenced by Ignatian spirituality, the Pastoral Spiral can be used by individuals in their daily life.
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What is the Pastoral Spiral? A flexible framework that can be been used for pastoral, academic or community action purposes. Known as the pastoral circle, pastoral cycle or pastoral spiral.
La musique d’Haendel façonne un langage pastoral qui puise dans des conventions du genre, mais qu’il détourne et manipule dans une perspective à la fois dramatique et psychologique. Avec Acis and Galatea, Haendel, Gay, Hughes et peut-être Pope collaborent à la création d’un nouveau langage pastoral anglais.
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- 2.0 PASTORAL SPIRAL METHOD
- 2.1 Experience
- 2.4 Pastoral Planning
- 3.0 CONCLUSION
First it has to be understood that “more and more SCCs in Africa are using various reflection processes and methodologies to reflect pastorally and theologically on their experiences, often using the tools of social analysis to identify the new signs of the times and to respond creatively to them.”5One of the methods people use is the Pastoral Spir...
This Stage, in some methods of Pastoral or Practical Theology, is called immersion or insertion. Here one, or the community, gets involved in the activities of the people. It is part of being with the people, participating in their daily activities. In other words, “the lived experiences of individuals and communities must be the foundation for all...
This is an important stage. It is the stage of alternative praxis. It is a stage of planning and taking concrete actions. The community moves through steps of policy-making and acting in order to effect the desired change in the situation. Here the community comes to pastoral action. Based on the insight from above, the community makes a decision o...
In conclusion, there are many activities in the church that need attention. To attend to such realities we ought to examine the social realities. This may be done by moving from praxis to alternative praxis via theological reflection. In this paper I have attempted to use this way of using the Pastoral Spiral (Experience, Social/Cultural Analysis, ...
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2.1 The pastoral spiral. Ubiquitous in the theory and practice of theological reflection, the pastoral cycle, or spiral (Cimperman 2015), evolved from the more philosophical literature on the hermeneutic circle (see section 1.2.2).
This presentation introduces the Pastoral Spiral. It is a flexible framework for action that has been used to guide pastoral work, present academic courses, and for planning social action. It is inspired by and embodies the dynamics of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola.
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Many models for doing theological reflection include discussions of the praxis circle or spiral as the process for doing reflection. This is the outline for one model which includes 6 stages that the group moves through during their experience. People may enter this spiral at any point; but each step is important for reflection to be meaningful.
