Para mí, la palabra más importante de esta cita es “descubrir”. No queremos que nos digan qué nos importa, queremos poner en práctica nuestra capacidad como seres humanos para descubrir quiénes somos individualmente y como comunidad, y luego elegir cómo viviremos y haremos algo significativo.

Page 158. A learning-centered approach can nurture these things.

concepts one has abstracted from experience closes the door to new revelation. Truth as the original Greek word denotes (aletheia), comes through disclosure or openness.”—Anderson, The Soul of Ministry, pp 11-12.

I like the way that Theologian Ray Anderson puts this, “Discernment requires submission to the clear and continuing observance of reality encountered through experience. Refusal to open one’s mind to this actuality for the sake of clinging to

Check out her detailed work in Longing to Know and/or Loving to Know. I great quick read is A Little Manual for Knowing( I gave this to my college aged kids to help them reflect on learning and discernment).

She argues against strict dichotomies such as subject/object, reason/emotion, fact/value, and mind/body, which fragment the holistic nature of knowing. Instead, her covenant epistemology emphasizes the integration of these aspects into a relational, participatory model of knowledge.

Franco mandated religion courses in schools and attending mass in Spain for his entire dictatorship (1939-1975). A few years ago a Gallop poll found that Spain is now the 5th most atheist country in the world. Mandated religion doesn’t work the way they think it does. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This is exactly what a learning-centered pedagogy envisions.

and that there is no Teacher, capitalized and in the singular, who has the Answer. This requires the heart, the courage, the passion to say, ‘Let’s see what comes!’ To the coming of what we cannot see coming. —John Caputo, Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information, p. 240