"New theology" Catholic buzzwords? Help compile a list

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Experience is a word that I think is synonymous with sentiment or feelings it just seems funny that especially where I am sentimentality is considered a bad thing but yet in the parish we keep saying that word experience so I’m wondering why is there such a contradiction?
 
Well said, Father, thank you. I agree there shouldn’t be a conflict. There should, however, be balance. In a recent online class for catechists one of the readings inferred I am high Christology because I resonate strongly with the Gospel of John. Not something I didn’t already know about myself. 😎
 
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I don’t know if the exact word that was substituted was “transformed,” but seems like it was, or something similar. People trying to get away from scholasticism, I guess.
I have no problem with the concept of transubstantiation.
 
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It may not be people getting away from scholasticism. We mustn’t presume motives. It may just be the level of understanding that some people are at. That doesn’t make it intentionally or maliciously wrong when someone is imprecise. Still less is it wholly inaccurate. Transubstantiation is a transformation, is it not? I think you’re splitting hairs.
 
Yes it is a transformation. Many Catholics would probably have trouble explaining the doctrine of transubstantiation. A more serious problem is the number of professed Catholics who don’t believe in the Real Presence, or persistently doubt it, as CARA has demonstrated. This is a failure of catechetics and adult religious ed in my opinion.
 
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I’ve also heard recently a lot of talk about “walking with people” or “meeting them where they are” as a description of how to carry out our mission
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I think this concept is more “new” because it used to be assumed that everybody grew up churched and taught classical Christian moral theology.
Beginning at least as far back as with Gen-X kids, there were a good number of kids who were not taken to Church or taught morality on purpose because parents didn’t want their children to ever feel guilt, and so they could “choose a religion for themselves”.
So fast forward a couple decades, and there at people who literally have never heard certain precepts of classical Christian morality. Not living lives of depravity, but they’ve lived their lives and made certain choices that make it challenging to join the RCC later if they desire.
Or they think religion is full of quaint little rules put into place for no real reason, because they were never taught any better.

We have to meet them where they are…
 
I wonder if Start. Peter & Paul said things like awareness and conciousness, mindfulness, and just for laughs, “home is the story of who we are!” Acknowledge and you take hold of your promise!"
 
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I wonder if Start. Peter & Paul said things like awareness and conciousness, mindfulness, and just for laughs, “home is the story of who we are!” Acknowledge and you take hold of your promise!"
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Haha now I’m picturing some hippie encounter group 🙂

But seriously, the gentiles they preached to were also unaware of Judeo-Christian philosophical and moral thoughts.
They had to start from the ground up.
Even as late as St Augustine, he had to admonish rape victims not to commit suicide to restore their honor, because the concept of honor-suicides were still deep in the culture…
 
Or “God loves people as they are” (this is usually stated in regards to the LGBT debate). How can you love someone as they’re not?

I still have no idea what a kerygma is
 
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I’ve never heard that, though words like “change” and “transform” are occasionally used even in the liturgy of the Church to speak of what’s going on. It is entirely possible to describe something via a number of different terms without diluting meaning or downplaying the need for precision. Thank God we have language and rational faculties for processing it.

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And also remembering that the philosophical word “transubstantiation” came about around the time of the Lateran Council (1215). Before them the Fathers and early Church were just using change, become, sanctified to describe it.
 
“Veiling” is a buzzword that I’ve only heard recently. We wore mantilla’s to attend Mass when I was little, but it was just a case of some people did and some didn’t. It didn’t actually have a specific term.
 
“Ways of ‘doing church’”
“God of surprises”
“Jesus came to turn everything upside down”
“Jesus was always doing revolutionary things. Gay marriage is a revolutionary thing. Therefore, Jesus would approve of gay marriage” (this one is almost word-for-word from a letter to the editor)
 
@Emeraldlady “Veiling” is just someone “wording.”

That is when you take a noun and make it into a verb by adding ing to the end.

Like “adulting.”

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I also am seeing the word “our” alot. Examples…Our liturgy. Our Holy Bible, Our God, Our Church, Our discipleship, Our experience…I don’t think “experience” is what we truly need right now. We need knowledge I think.
 
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I think you’re reading way too much into things and making more of it than it is. Are these things you’re seeing and hearing in your own parish? You do have a pattern of posting things like that.
 
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