"New theology" Catholic buzzwords? Help compile a list

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The relevant passage from the RSV uses veil as a verb, as do most other modern versions:
but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head—it is the same as if her head were shaven. 1 Cor 11:5
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KJV uses covered and uncovered, but veil has long been used as a verb.
 
Buddy1 said:
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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Loud-living-dogma said:
“Community” instead of parish. The overuse of the word “community” until everyone is heartily sick of it.
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Since only two letters differentiate “Community” and “Communion,” I think the deeper meaning of Christian relationship is much better, well, communicated by that word than by “parish,” which is really just an administrative term, not one implying relationship.
 
Buddy we are part of the Church. These things are ours, God gave them to us.
Whats the problem?

I will expand the Christology a little, Low Christology relates to Jesus as a fully human person. High Christology relates to Jesus as a fully divine person.
 
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First of all, I meant that as a joke and not as some kind of grammar lesson. Second, even in your example the verb did not have an ing at the end, which is what I was referring to.
 
We could always invent some buzzwords, like TOBbler (a young adult who is conversant in and adheres to the Theology of the Body).
 
The original intention of the post was to see if anyone else has noticed a shift in understanding.

An example of this New Theology could go somethin like this:

The Feast of Pentecost shows the apostles (Us) are behind locked doors (Fear). Then the Holy Spirit (the spiritual presence of Jesus) appears in their mind (memory). They begin to communicate with one another. (The Noise). The people outside (The World) think that the apostles (Us) are drunk (The Experience). But the apostles say that “This is the result of being given a gift by God.” So just as we are the apostles talk about this Jesus (Christology) that we have come to know, and just as the apostles (Us) found themselves (Preconceived Ideas) locked behind closed doors (Fear), they (Us) needed (God’s Gift) to be willing (Accepting the consequence of accepting the Gift) in some way to be changed (Repentance, Welcoming, Diverse, Open to Evolution of Dogma, ) and so now We today must act on our (We’re our own Pope) belief to change our preconceived ideas (The Original Sin) which has always caused the limits of our culture (Fallen Humanity).

The only way the above explanation holds up is if it is built on a theology is this theory of prefigurement. That everything in Holy Scripture including the Incarnation is just a shadow of what is next to come. Which I think is where the Omega Point come into play.
 
This “theory of prefigurement” is well established in Christian thought. Christ is the example and our lives are like a stamp repeating that example. (Antitype/type is the language usually used, but that gets confusing really quickly these days)

I am not sure why you object, or even if you do object.
 
I’m talking about a kind of prefigurement that would lead to a sense of sin=good, good=good, sin and non-sin are the same.
 
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I do not see that anywhere in your recounting of Pentecost. Where do you see it?
 
I’m sorry you cant see the renaming and rebranding of Christianity that has fooled a lot of people, including myself. And I’m finally starting to wake up and realize that the readings we hear at Mass are like reading a diary, its not a children’s story book. I felt it one time at Church “Gee I feel like we think this is fake, that its a coping skill” But that’s when I realized that That’s the spirit of doubt. This is actually REAL. Jesus IS The WAY, HE IS The TRUTH, and HE IS The LIFE. That its not just his Way of living that is the key but its the fact that its HIM that His way of Life is the Way. I’ve been told by a lot of people that Christianity is a selfish religion that its just about living your life to get to heaven and if it affects somebody then whatever but I think that this is the result of the rebranding of Christianity which leads some to abandon their faith. And those who stay are like “why are you leaving?”

Does this make sense?
 
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Beryllos said:
We could always invent some buzzwords, like TOBbler (a young adult who is conversant in and adheres to the Theology of the Body).
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Sounds fun. Pew-tiful is my contribution, but I suspect we are creating jargon more so than buzz words.
 
The original intention of the post was to see if anyone else has noticed a shift in understanding.
An example of this New Theology could go somethin like this:
The Feast of Pentecost shows the apostles (Us) are behind locked doors (Fear). Then the Holy Spirit (the spiritual presence of Jesus) appears in their mind (memory). They begin to communicate with one another. (The Noise). The people outside (The World) think that the apostles (Us) are drunk (The Experience). But the apostles say that “This is the result of being given a gift by God.” So just as we are the apostles talk about this Jesus (Christology) that we have come to know, and just as the apostles (Us) found themselves (Preconceived Ideas) locked behind closed doors (Fear), they (Us) needed (God’s Gift) to be willing (Accepting the consequence of accepting the Gift) in some way to be changed (Repentance, Welcoming, Diverse, Open to Evolution of Dogma, ) and so now We today must act on our (We’re our own Pope) belief to change our preconceived ideas (The Original Sin) which has always caused the limits of our culture (Fallen Humanity).
The only way the above explanation holds up is if it is built on a theology is this theory of prefigurement. That everything in Holy Scripture including the Incarnation is just a shadow of what is next to come. Which I think is where the Omega Point come into play.
Theres this renaming and rebranding of Christianity that has fooled a lot of people, including myself. And I’m finally starting to wake up and realize that the readings we hear at Mass are like reading a diary, its not a children’s story book. I felt it one time at Church “Gee I feel like we think this is fake, that its a coping skill” But that’s when I realized that That’s the spirit of doubt. This is actually REAL. Jesus IS The WAY, HE IS The TRUTH, and HE IS The LIFE. That its not just his Way of living that is the key but its the fact that its HIM that His way of Life is the Way. I’ve been told by a lot of people that Christianity is a selfish religion that its just about living your life to get to heaven and if it affects somebody then whatever but I think that this is the result of the rebranding of Christianity which leads some to abandon their faith. And those who stay are like “why are you leaving?”
 
I’m not seeing that there has been such a shift within the Catholic Church. Are you seeing this in your own parish/diocese?

Now, if you are telling us about things you see online or in the media, I would not be so worried. There is a lot of noise and junk out there. Keep calm and carry on. Let your light shine in the darkness.
 
LateranBasilica said:
I will expand the Christology a little, Low Christology relates to Jesus as a fully human person. High Christology relates to Jesus as a fully divine person.
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One of the things I love about the Transfiguration, of which we heard in last Sunday’s Gospel, is that it shows Jesus to be fully human and fully divine.
 
No, this really makes no sense to me. Typology has been part of Christianity since at last the 2nd century. It is not new, or rebranding, but the dominant spiritual exegetical technique.

I do not really get what you think Christianity is. Are you promoting a form of historical criticism, that cares only about examining the bible as history? Those are about the only people I know who strongly object to the typological exegesis. You do not seem like that type.

The part of your synthesis that I would change is that the life of Christ is “a shadow of what is next to come.” Christ is the antitype which creates the type of his lfe in our lives. Our lives are filled wth the reality that is the life of Christ. We are the Body of Christ. Christ lives in us. We receive the Holy Spirit. Christ is really present in the Eucharist. For us, these are more real than the mere history of Christ, though we know the life of Jesus is the source of our life.
 
Dovekin said:
Christ is the antitype which creates the type of his lfe in our lives.
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Would that be antetype? (Sorry… From the dictionary definitions, I am a little unclear of the difference between antitype and antetype.)
 
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I would have to disagree with the wording that “the Incarnation is just a shadow of what is next to come.” The Incarnation is so fundamental and so profound – that God became man for no reason but love, so that man may not only live with God forever, but may be one with God (as we read, for example, in John 17:20-26).

Are you woried about the infiltration of buzzwords into theology? It is interesting that you use the term Omega Point, which is quite the buzzword. I prefer the formulation found in the CCC:
302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:

By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, “reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well”. For “all are open and laid bare to his eyes”, even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.
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