Tuning the Rig

Catholic Schools for a Learning Church

By (author) Fred Herron

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Publication date:

10 July 2012

Length of book:

260 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761852063

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.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Tuning the Rig
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 How Is It That We Live Forever
Part 5 I. A Good People
Chapter 6 1. A Little Breathless and a Little Late: Towards a Teaching and a Learning Church
Chapter 7 2. The Face of God in Human Form: Common Traits of Excellent Catholic Schools
Chapter 8 3. The Substance of Things Hoped For: School Handbooks as Text and Event
Chapter 9 II. A Gracious World
Chapter 10 4. Finding God in the OC? Popular Culture and Religious Education
Chapter 11 5. "Big Russ" and the Glory of the Ordinary
Chapter 12 6. Chesterton, Gossip Girls, and the Formation of Catholic Imagination
Chapter 13 7. When Did We See You Hungry? — Catholic Stories Today
Part 14 III. A Community for Life: Made for Each Other
Chapter 15 8. Shaking Off the Village: Spreading the Gospel in the Postmodern World
Chapter 16 9. The Bishops and the Blogs: Faith Formation on the Internet
Part 17 IV. A Tradition to Inherit
Chapter 18 10. Ignatius Loyola and Jesuit Education
Chapter 19 11. The Eucharist and the Millennials: Insights from the Benedictine Rule
Chapter 20 12. The Scarred Coin and the Catholic Imagination: Writing Across the Curriculum and Vincentian Spirituality
Part 21 V. A Reasonable Wisdom
Chapter 22 13. The Fallow Way: Seeds of Renewal for the Catholic Imagination
Chapter 23 14. Catholic Schools as Covenant Communities: Towards a New Model for School Governance
Part 24 VI. A Spirituality for Everyone
Chapter 25 15. Our Transformation in Christ: Thomas Merton and Transformative Learning
Chapter 26 16. A Solidary Man: Thomas Merton and the Rise of Solidarity
Chapter 27 17. A Bricoleur in the Monastery: Tactics in a Nothing Place
Part 28 VII. A Faith That Does Justice
Chapter 29 18. He Shall Overcome: The Challenge of Peace for Catholic Educators
Part 30 VIII. A Catholic Openness
Chapter 31 19. From the Eliot School Rebellion to Campion Hall: Solidarity, Public Interest, and School Vouchers, A Test Case for the Catholic Imagination
Chapter 32 20. A Dangerous Memory: Prophetic Education and the Catholic Imagination

…An exceptional job of communicating key challenges to Catholic Educators, providing purposeful examples to model through their imagination, dialogue and community of discipleship. It will be a must for my students.