Edward Foley > Quotes

“Chaordic is a term that Hock used publicly for the first time in 1993: a newly minted modifier, forged from the words “chaos” and “order.” This was Hock’s after-the-fact attempt to name an honest and self-effacing approach to leadership—tested over decades—that attempted to invite order in the midst of chaos without imposing, prescribing, or predicting what that order should look like. Chaos theory is familiar to anyone who has seen the science fiction classic Jurassic Park.”
― Edward Foley, Theological Reflection across Religious Traditions: The Turn to Reflective Believing

“we need to shift from seeing church as a gathering of people meeting in one place at one time—that is, a congregation—to a notion of church as a series of relationships and communications” (Ward 2002, 2). Reimagining “interfaith theological reflection” as more liquid than solid, a series of relationships and communications rather than some closed process conducted within the confines of one’s synagogue, church, or mosque, is a provocative and promising metaphor.”
― Edward Foley, Theological Reflection across Religious Traditions: The Turn to Reflective Believing