Comments on: Seeking holiness in a secular society like NZ https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/11/15/seeking-holiness-in-a-secular-society-like-nz/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:29:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 By: Greg https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/11/15/seeking-holiness-in-a-secular-society-like-nz/#comment-39543 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:29:13 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20395#comment-39543 I agree with the speaker though and I direct you to the Vatican document ‘General Directory of Catechesis” (1997) for further instruction on the “kergymatic” method.
I also point out that the same document discriminates between the deductive method (top down based on revelation and kerygma, scripture, tradition, liturgy, transcendent) and the inductive method (bottom up, existential, experiential, subjective, human problems and conditions, immanent). In my view there’s far too much emphasis on the later inductive-existential-immanent approach.

However, enough with the rhetoric of “renew”, “reimagine”, progress etc and false-dichotomies between Church and people. It is as old as the hills. A Gen-X, as a child I remember the green booklets of the “RENEW” program of the 1980s, some bright spots to be sure, but what has it produced by 2020? A Church that is 2/3 over the age of 65, which couldn’t transmit the Faith to their children.

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