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IGF011 In Good Faith with Father Anthony Gittins, recorded live on December 1, 2011. Produced by aNunsLife.org Ministry. Topics include mission, evangelization, discipleship, and liberation; magisterium and ministerium of the Church; discernment and more!
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Show Notes
- How Fr. Tony’s faith journey informs his sense of mission.
- Edwina Gately and working at Genesis House.
- Ministering as a pastor in Sierra Leone to learn the “grammar of the language and the grammar of the culture.”
- Teaching theology at Catholic Theological Union through the lens of culture, e.g. the cultural implications of reading Scripture.
- The relationship between mission, evangelization, discipleship, and liberation.
- God’s mission has a church! The church’s job is to do God’s mission.
- Discernment is required to know where we fit in God’s mission.
- The Church and the relationship of tension between “power” and “piety.”
- The relationship between Magisterium and "Ministerium."
About our Guest
Father Anthony Gittins is a member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) and a professor of mission and culture at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois. For the past twenty-five years he has ministered with and among homeless women on the streets of Chicago and in a shelter. For seven of those years he was part of Genesis House – a community where women struggle to escape from prostitution (from CTU website).
