Tuning the Rig: Catholic Schools for a Learning Church
To "tune the rig" describes adjusting a ship's rigging; the rig of a well-tuned boat allows the sails to function well. This task must be performed to ensure the best performance by the ship.
Tuning the Rig takes that metaphor as a guide for Catholic educators and administrators, as well as for the larger church. It argues from a variety of perspectives rooted in the Catholic imagination that the rig constantly needs to be re-tuned to balance between visions of the church as teacher and learner.
Why should this matter to Catholic educators? To Herron, our understanding of the church as learner is at the heart of our understanding of ourselves as disciples. One of the logical consequences of this era of baptismal consciousness is a rising awareness on the part of the laity that their task is not simply to "pay, pray, and obey" but to grow and journey in faith.
Herron's focus ranges from issues closely pertaining to Catholic schools to the larger questions of the Catholic imagination. The underlying thread, however, is the challenge of maintaining the richness of the Catholic imagination — of tuning the rig — in changing times and the ordinary life of the church.
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Tuning the Rig: Catholic Schools for a Learning Church
To "tune the rig" describes adjusting a ship's rigging; the rig of a well-tuned boat allows the sails to function well. This task must be performed to ensure the best performance by the ship.
Tuning the Rig takes that metaphor as a guide for Catholic educators and administrators, as well as for the larger church. It argues from a variety of perspectives rooted in the Catholic imagination that the rig constantly needs to be re-tuned to balance between visions of the church as teacher and learner.
Why should this matter to Catholic educators? To Herron, our understanding of the church as learner is at the heart of our understanding of ourselves as disciples. One of the logical consequences of this era of baptismal consciousness is a rising awareness on the part of the laity that their task is not simply to "pay, pray, and obey" but to grow and journey in faith.
Herron's focus ranges from issues closely pertaining to Catholic schools to the larger questions of the Catholic imagination. The underlying thread, however, is the challenge of maintaining the richness of the Catholic imagination — of tuning the rig — in changing times and the ordinary life of the church.
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Tuning the Rig: Catholic Schools for a Learning Church

Tuning the Rig: Catholic Schools for a Learning Church

by Fred Herron
Tuning the Rig: Catholic Schools for a Learning Church

Tuning the Rig: Catholic Schools for a Learning Church

by Fred Herron

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To "tune the rig" describes adjusting a ship's rigging; the rig of a well-tuned boat allows the sails to function well. This task must be performed to ensure the best performance by the ship.
Tuning the Rig takes that metaphor as a guide for Catholic educators and administrators, as well as for the larger church. It argues from a variety of perspectives rooted in the Catholic imagination that the rig constantly needs to be re-tuned to balance between visions of the church as teacher and learner.
Why should this matter to Catholic educators? To Herron, our understanding of the church as learner is at the heart of our understanding of ourselves as disciples. One of the logical consequences of this era of baptismal consciousness is a rising awareness on the part of the laity that their task is not simply to "pay, pray, and obey" but to grow and journey in faith.
Herron's focus ranges from issues closely pertaining to Catholic schools to the larger questions of the Catholic imagination. The underlying thread, however, is the challenge of maintaining the richness of the Catholic imagination — of tuning the rig — in changing times and the ordinary life of the church.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761852056
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/14/2010
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Fred Herron is the interim executive director at Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, a member of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John's University, Staten Island, and chairperson of the Religious Studies Department at Fontbonne Hall Academy.

Table of Contents

Preface Tunning the Rig vii

Introduction How It Is That We Live Forever xiii

I A Good People

1 A Little Breathless and a Little Late: Towards a Teaching and a Learning Church 3

2 The Face of God in Human Form: Common Traits of Excellent Catholic Schools 25

3 The Substance of Things Hoped For: School Handbooks as Text and Event 35

II A Gracious World

4 Finding God in the OC? Popular Culture and Religious Education 45

5 "Big Russ" and the Glory of the Ordinary 49

6 Chesterton, Gossip Girls and the Formation of the Catholic Imagination 55

7 When Did We See You Hungry?-Catholic Stories Today 65

III A Community for Life: Made for Each Other

8 Shaking Off the Village: Spreading the Gospel in the Postmodern World 75

9 The Bishops and the Blogs: Faith Formation on the Internet 81

IV A Tradition to Inherit

10 Ignatius Loyola and Jesuit Education 87

11 The Eucharist and the Millennials: Insights from the Benediction Rule 99

12 The Scarred Coin and the Catholic Imagination: Writing Across the Curriculum and Vincentian Spirituality 107

V A Reasonable Wisdom

13 The Fallow Way: Seeds of Renewal for the Catholic Imagination 115

14 Catholic Schools as Covenant Communities: Towards a New Model for School Governance 129

VI A Spirituality for Everyone

15 Our Transformation in Christ: Thomas Merton and Transformative Learning 145

16 A Solidary Man: Thomas Merton and the Rising Tide of Solidarity 159

17 A Bricoleur in the Monastery: Tactics in a Nothing Place 169

VII A Faith That Does Justice

18 He Shall Overcome: The Challenge of Peace for Catholic Educators 181

VIII A Catholic Openness

19 From the Eliot School Rebellion to Campion Hall: Solidarity, Public Interest and School Vouchers, A Test Case for the Catholic Imagination 193

20 A Dangerous Memory: Prophetic Education and the Catholic Imagination 219

Index 233

Scriptural Index 241

About the Author 243

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