Meaning of resourcement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A theological movement involving a return to the original sources of the Catholic church.
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2. The provision of resources.
3. A strategy for dealing with conflict in which one changes the source of emotional energy in an encounter to provide a new and creative response.
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Examples

“If this strategy of resourcement is a call for the American Church to become more deeply Catholic than it has perhaps even been, it should be clear that it is a call to become a very different kind of Catholic than prevailed in the pre-Vatican II Church.”

“Insofar as these norms require modifications of the ideals and social goals that Catholicism aspired to in the long period from Constantine to Napoleon, they can be seen as encouraging either a progressive development of doctrine in social matters or a resourcement in which the church returns to patterns of organization and social aspiration which were appropriate to its early formative experiences as a minority group more concerned to survive hostility and contempt than to mold society.”

“After the Second World War there was, on the one hand, the movement striving for what was called resourcement, a return to the sources. Typically, it was not the Bible but the Church Fathers that were considered to embody the true and living source of theology, and, what was more, the true way of understanding the position of the theologian.”

“In Roman Catholic circles, Henri de Lubac powerfully and controversially championed a resourcement of theology, looking beyond the manuals and commentaries authoritative in his day to the still living voice of the Fathers and great Scholastics.”

“. Through resourcement, organizational members develop radically creative responses that frame an issue differently.”

“Sholars can revisit the skills and subskills of critical thinking and then use them to revisit persuasion. Do measurement tools include measures of intuition, imagination, and emotional feelings, as well as reason? Are strategies such as willingness to yield, resourcement, and external conditions included?”

“Sometimes, disengagement itself constitutes the entire process of resourcement. You literally might choose to walk away from an encounter rather than continue a negative interaction.”

“Studies focusing on large regions, for example, were common well before the last ten years in areas where cultural resourcement management projects are infrequent and measurement of social relationships is difficult.”

“Secondly, looking at coping and resourcement management, Angela, by refusing services, became unable to cope with and manage her environment to obtain her goal of staying out of a nursing home.”

“The Commission makes extensive use of non-established staff. It does so because they provide a way of circumventing problems arising from an under-resourcement of established staff and also from an absence – especially in new and developing policy areas – of 'in-house' expertise and experience.”

“As a matter of fact, a new phenomenon of drug abuse particularly motokwane, especially amongst the youth, has emerged which not only requires better resourcement of the Police Service but the active intervention of the parents and the community to stop the scourge.”

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