Resourcement

Quick meaning: Resourcement is a noun meaning (Catholicism) A theological movement involving a return to the original sources of the Catholic church.

Meaning

(Catholicism) A theological movement involving a return to the original sources of the Catholic church.

More Meanings

1. The provision of resources.
2. A strategy for dealing with conflict in which one changes the source of emotional energy in an encounter to provide a new and creative response.

Example Sentences

. Through resourcement, organizational members develop radically creative responses that frame an issue differently.

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.

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.

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