Picturing Theology, Revised Edition

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Respit ~

the act of looking back

To grant a period of open audience, to put off judgment and to suspend

final conclusions on a matter until the argument of the other has been fully heard and understood (Automatic judgment!) Regarder ~ to look back, to guard

To pay attention, to take into careful consideration, to take into critical account the words, beliefs, and actions of another (Disregard!)

Regard

Respite

Reflecter ~ to bend back, to mirror To give back or exhibit as an image, likeness or outline; to reflect back; to reproduce accurately and clearly what the other has presented and communicated (Generalization!)

Re + specere ~ to look, to look again To consider worthy of reference, esteem, to treat with the highest sense of importance (Disrespect!)

Listen

Suspend

Esteem

Process

Reflect

Respect

Criticize

Empathize

Reply

Resonate

Assumptions about traditions: 1. Traditions deserve respect

2. Traditions ought not be prematurely judged 3. Traditions should be critically engaged 4. Traditions must be taken seriously 5. Traditions should be assessed

6. Traditions ought to be constructively utilized

Toward a Hermeneutic of Critical Engagement Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis Replicare ~ to fold back; to fold again, to answer, to bend or twist together again To respond in words, whether spoken or written, or in actions; to communicate in response back to the other; to twist together and connect one’s own view with and/or against the view of the other as carefully as possible (Caricature!) Resonare ~ to sound again: to echo

To seek to find within the communication of the other some

idea, belief, or statement with which one may empathize, sympathize, or find some commonality with (Disconnection!)