ECUMENICAL LITERACY

Specific Foundation

The course is also offered to exchange programme students.

In this module the students will practice in ‘tracing’ the worldliness (always related to the locality) of our life, researching and presenting particular issues/questions in this ‘perspective’ on the ‘world to become’.

The starting point and the issue of Ecumenical Literacy is (paraphrasing Paulo Freire) the fact that, and the question about how we humans develop our awareness and our capacity for action in ‘our world’. The fact that, and the question of how we manage to perceive and deal with the world not as a static reality, but as a reality that evolves and changes through our perception and action. Our dialectical relations as individuals with 'our world' exist independently of how we perceive them (or whether or not we perceive them at all), however the forms of action we humans adopt are substantially linked with the ways in which we perceive our world, as well as ourselves in this world. Our point of departure and our goal is the worldliness (Weltlichkeit) - always related to locality as its dialectical mate - as a normal, trivial 'condition' of our life, always within the changing, evolving Ecumene of humans, our world ... where of course the 'world', the ‘we’, the 'our’, as well as the relations between them are not at all some fixed, natural or mystical substances, but historically changing products of the actions and perceptions of us humans ourselves about our 'world to become'. Content, object of our course Ecumenical Literacy are our conceptions/perceptions as well as our practices related to this worldliness - as a learning, educational, pedagogical, psychological, political, etc. challenge, as a framework (with its opportunities and confinements), as a promise, as well as a condition of our thinking and action.

worldliness, locality, learning, educational, pedagogical, psychological, political, challenge

16-10-2025