Diarmuid Ó Murchú – Root & Branch Zoom 4 Dec @ 8.00pm


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DIARMUID

O’MURCHU


Thursday 4th December

8pm London time
Root & Branch are honoured to welcome

Diarmuid O’Murchu

to lead us through 

Reworking the Tradition:
Implications for our Time
 Tradition is about passing on, not clinging on.
Tradition is one of the most misunderstood concepts in religion and theology.

Instead of clinging to the past as something fixed and unchanging, we need to engage tradition as a process of evolution ever responsive to the lure of the future.

Tradition is about passing on, not clinging on.Contemporary Christian scholarship invites us into a much deeper discernment on what we mean by tradition.
This deeper discernment on what we mean by tradition involves how we access it, interpret it, and discern its basis for the ongoing growth and development of our faith.

In terms of our inherited Christian story, there is no such thing as a fixed tradition, grounded in one foundational set of meanings.

To the contrary, the bedrock tradition of our faith is organic, evolutionary in nature, and influenced by several layers of life and culture.  
The Task of Reworking:The early Church councils (particularly Nicea, Chalcedon, Constantinople) wrestled with the incarnation of divine imperialism in the person of the historical Jesus.

And while the outcome sought to honour both the divinity and the humanity of Jesus, it was the divine imperial status that triumphed, and subsequently invested in kings, popes, bishops, and male clerics. Today, theology seeks to reclaim that which was substantially suppressed.References:a) When the Disciple Comes of Age (2019).b) Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way (2021)
Diarmuid O’Murchu is a former missionary, social psychologist and prolific author, with extensive international experience on Adult Faith Development as a workshop leader and group facilitator in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, The Philippines, Thailand, India, and in several African countries.

A member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, his main interest is in the theological foundations for the renewal of our Christian faith (Catholic or otherwise) in the 21st century. Reclaiming the Gospel foundation of the Kingdom of God is central to that renewal.

Root & Branch are deeply honoured that this gentle man and exciting thinker is coming to us, amidst his many and stellar engagements, to give us an evening / morning / afternoon of his precious time. 
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London time
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