Unafraid of the Light: Appreciative Inquiry and Faith Communitites
Author: Paul Chaffee
Interfaith Center at the Presdio
12/01/1997
Pages: 8
Annotation: This excerpt was taken from the second to the last paragraph of this paper:
Similar appreciative insight can be plumbed in other religious and spiritual traditions, particularly when relationships are at issue, since AI is a relational approach to being and knowing. And the preoccupation with relationships is not the only natural connection between religious communities and AI. Whatever the religion, its followers develop understanding and practice through story, song, imagination, prayer and meditation, as well as reason and discourse. AI similarly encourages a holistic, ecological learning environment, asking that we think analogically and symbolically as well as logically, imaginatively as well as analytically. So congregations have an enormous opportunity with AI, as do larger religious entities. Religiously inspired conflicts in the 20th century are on a par with the human family's worst history. Those in religious communities committed to sharing AI's gifts would agree, I suspect, that this is the best opportunity we've discovered for making the next millennium a safer place for us all.
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