Abstract
Advocating the crafting of inculturated catechisms, this paper calls for a pedagogy of faith built not from the desks of catechetical authorities but from the ground. In this pedagogical renewal, necessitated by changing times and circumstances, the paper finds a rallying point and guiding principle in the FABC’s call for inculturation understood as “dialogue.” At the same time, it identifies a number of ongoing challenges that hinder this process, including notions and methodologies of inculturation that can be unilateral and amount to a kind of imposition on the receiving culture, which possesses its own customs and practices. The paper then proposes “dialogic integration” as a practical application of FABC’s inculturation principle for pedagogical renewal and elaborates on concrete ways to apply it in catechetical ministry.
Recommended Citation
Parde, William M. Jr.
(2022)
"The FABC Vision of Inculturation and the Pedagogical Renewal of Catechesis in the Philippines,"
Loyola Papers: Vol. 3:
No.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/loyola/vol3/iss2/4