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Connection to Theology
The pastoral concems and issues in a particular ministerial experience furnish the agenda for theological reflection; they also provide the criteria for determining which resources in the faith tradition are relevant to the ministerial experience. In the whiteheads' approach the whole of the faith tradition is available for theological reflection. There is no predetermination of sources or themes, although most reflectors turn instinctively to the Bible, and themes such as sin, grace, salvation, incarnation and community typically arise in ministerial experience. The point is that the experience itself provides the connecticn to theology. What it evokes is what theological reflectors should attend to. This is what distinguishes the form of theological reflection from the form of applied theology and other theological disciplines.
For the Whiteheads, engaging the tradition from the perspective of ministerial experience means that sometimes the pastoral perspective confirms the tradition, sometimes it clarifies aspects of it, sometimes it challenges it and calls for change. Conversely the tradition can confirm the meaning of a ministerial experience, clarify overlooked or hidden aspects of it, challenge people's attitudes and actions and call for change.
The manner of conversation in this engagement is not polemical but assertive; the skill needed is not mastery but intimacy, a befriending of the sources of faith. How this works is illustrated in the Whiteheads' book by a chapter on the use of scripture. Theological reflectors grappling with a pastoral situation typically look to the Bible for paradigms, images, themes and historical precedents that seem to correspond to the current concern or issue.
In the first stage there is a free association of possible points of contact between experience and scripture. This is followed by a more critical examination of those that seem to have the most texts relevance to the partorsl situation. This examination includes at least a literary and historical analysis (wuth the aid of commentaries) and possibly also an awareness of liturgical, moral and devotional uses of the chosen biblical passages. Wrestling with these meaning and implications leads to a sense of what the ministerial experience neans biblically and what course of action it calls for.
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