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January 01, 1970
January 01, 1970
It’s like you’re addressing the heartbeat of theological education and its adaptability to the diverse colors within the ecclesiastical spectrum. Your insights make me rethink the traditional models and consider how theological education can better align with the vibrant tapestry of today’s church communities.
Thank you, Professor Yoo, for a cogent, historically- anchored, contextual account of the condition facing all US churches, certainly including the Catholic in which I am a priest. I read your essay during the national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
One line of reflective cooperation occurs to me in response. In the ecumenical movement, the initiative known as receptive ecumenism has emerged to parallel the familiar dialogical method. In receptive ecumenism representatives from divided traditions of Christianity take as their orienting question: what can we learn from each other in dealing with what our churches are struggling with? This focus temporarily displaces dialogue and the important learning that occurs by exchange on beliefs, practices, self-understandings, polities, theologies, histories, and missional perspectives. The disposition is one of humble incompleteness and recognition of what others may offer by way of assistance.
May your research, writing, and teaching be blessed by the one Lord of us all.