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Sustaining Redemptive Social Action: Intertwining Zen and Ignatian Meditation for Christian Discernment.

Sustaining Redemptive Social Action: Intertwining Zen and Ignatian Meditation for Christian Discernment.


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This dissertation proposes a method for Christian congregations and institutions of higher education to teach skills for nonviolent cultural transformation. Using a praxis-reflection research model, it offers interdisciplinary warrants for, and documents experiments in, the joint teaching of Ignatian and Zen meditation to support Christian spiritual discernment for social action. Defining spiritual discernment as embodied, divine-human cooperative imagination, I distinguish Christian spiritual discernment as being rooted in an imagination which frames problems in terms of the Christian scriptures' imagery and ethical teachings, interpreted through the lens of Jesus' ministry. I examine and test the hypothesis that Zen practices for increasing the accuracy of one's perceptions, and Ignatian practices that center the imagination in biblical narratives, mutually support discernment. The Overview argues that Christian educators have, since the first century, borrowed nonJudeo-Christian pedagogies to teach spiritual discernment. Proposing that the human side of spiritual discernment is a neurologically-grounded decision-making process, Chapters One to Three present two "interactionist" approaches to human knowing that locate learning in the dynamic relationality between the body and its environment. Chapter One examines neuroscientist Antonio Damasio's theories of self-environment interaction and the roles of emotions and perceptions in decision-making. Chapter Two reviews philosopher Nancey Murphy's assessment of biblical approaches to the body/mind problem and introduces practical theologian James Loder's critiques of postEnlightenment body/mind, observer/object, and divine action/human action dichotomies. This chapter and the next explore Loder's theological anthropology and epistemology. Loder describes a dynamic Holy Spirit-human spirit relationality bringing the mind of Christ to bear on social suffering. Chapters Four and Five recount how Zen Buddhists Thich Nhat Hahn and Sr. Chan Khong, and Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola, learned and taught meditation practices for discerning ways to relieve suffering and renew hope in their war-torn societies. Chapter Six describes Plum Village Zen practices and Ignatian prayer over scripture. Chapter Seven reviews the praxis-reflection research which involved teaching Zen and Ignatian meditation to seminarians anticipating social action ministries. It concludes with practical theological rules of art for teaching nonChristian eastern practices in Christian education contexts.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781244026773
  • Publisher: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Sub Title: Intertwining Zen and Ignatian Meditation for Christian Discernment.
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1244026778
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 830 gr


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