Enhancing Catholic School Identity: Shedding More Light

This article responds to Professor Robyn Horner’s attempt to rebut the claim that the Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project is antithetical to the evangelizing mission of the Church. It does so by engaging in a deeper analysis of some key concepts in the theology undergirding the Project: literal belief, immanence, presence, symbol, recontextualisation, interruption, and hermeneutics. It points out Horner’s misunderstanding of evangelization and draws attention to the fact that she does not attempt to rebut my critique of the Project’s understanding of faith and reason. It concludes by presenting a fundamental theological flaw of the Project: the absence of pneumatology.