Resourcement

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.