Wood suggests that by following the lead of the concept
of habitus, but in a different direction from the one Farley took, one can resolve this knot by reconceptualizing the entire issue We do not have to choose between «objective» and «subjective» construals of what theology is.
Under the rubric
of habitus, he speaks of theology as both wisdom and science.
In Farley's case the circle is broken by introducing a subjective construal
of habitus, and hence of theology, as a mode of consciousness.
Not that there is anything wrong with the concept
of habitus.
Farley tries to describe theology, which he has already defined as a habitus, in terms
of the habitus for it.
Not exact matches
Diagonally across New Street from the New York Stock Exchange, the corner
of Exchange Place stands a dull red building
of queer proportions which is the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange
of New York, familiarly known as the little board and disrespectfully referred to by
habitus of New Street...
What is wrong is Farley's failure to see the implications
of the fact (which he himself notes in passing) that a
habitus is by definition a disposition for some activity.
In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a
habitus, albeit a
habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense
of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing
of.
But Wood then objects to Farley's way
of defining theology as a
habitus.
Hence the overarching goal that will unify theological schooling is the goal
of helping people to acquire «that complex set
of intellectual and personal qualities which go to make up what we might still call the theological
habitus» (79)-- that is, to make sound theological judgments.
The question we are putting is a real one only if it is possible, at least in the individual case, for there to be an inculpable apostasy
of that kind, at least supposed or taken to be apostasy, for,
of course, the man in question would remain a believer, because in possession
of the «infused
habitus of faith», but he would be a believer who was mistaken in thinking himself not to be one.
where many habits dispose us to act automatically in mechanical and rigid ways,
habitus dispose us to act in a certain characteristic way (say, prudently) but to do so intentionally (as opposed to automatically), thoughtfully (as opposed to instinctively), self - critically (as opposed to mechanically), and inventively (as opposed to rigidly) in light
of the actual circumstances
of the action.
Each particular configuration
of appetite has a temporal impetus: It is an element in a
habitus, a mode
of being in the world, that disposes people to move along its track.
However, do not suppose that it is theologically sufficient to appropriate «Athens» solely into the «professional» education pole
of theological education on the «Berlin» model's terms (construing «professional» education as, say, paideia into the
habitus of faith).
Accordingly, what will make schooling «theological» is that it shapes human persons so that they are formed by the
habitus of theology (paideia) and capacitated to engage in truly critical reflection.
We saw that it is unclear whether this proposal can coherently incorporate aspects
of the «Berlin» type because it is unclear whether the two sides
of theology (
habitus and «dialectical activity») cohere with each other.
By contrast this book urges that the overarching end or goal
of theological schooling is to understand God; and «to understand» is to come to have certain conceptual capacities,
habitus, that is, dispositions and competencies to act, that enable us to apprehend God and refer all things including ourselves to God.
Although a genetic condition distinct from Marfan syndrome, MEN 2B is characterized by marfanoid
habitus, a term that describes the co-occurrence
of many Marfan syndrome features.
Derived from the word «
habitus,» which refers to your everyday mode
of being.
Toxicity due to prolonged therapy with corticosteroids (for example in asthma, allergies, etc.) results in Cushing's Syndrome and «apple shaped» body
habitus with central obesity is one
of most common presenting features
of corticosteroid toxicity.
The body
habitus for them are «pear shaped» (relative excess
of subcutaneous fat in hips, buttocks and limbs) and «apple shaped» (relative excess
of abdominal fat) respectively.
In conjunction with the ongoing exhibition
habitus, The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a gallery talk by textile scholar Dr. Linda Eaton, the John L. & Marjorie P. McGraw Director
of Collections and Senior Curator
of Textiles at the Winterthur Museum.
daily routines present a body
of work addressing such themes as the perception
of time, isolated consciousness, and the illusion
of order, all
of which depend on «social
habitus.»
The purpose
of this furniture was trying to locate a material that would break with the ordinary consumer's
habitus, in order to increase consumers» perceptions about what materials can be used for furniture today.