McGrail, Peter and Bodi, Matyas (2024) Making a Permanent Deacon: Theorising Recruitment, Selection, Formation, and Deployment in the Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool. Transformation: A Holistic Journal of International Mission Studies. ISSN 1759-8931
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Abstract
The restoration of the permanent diaconate was one of the major changes introduced by the Second Vatican Council. Despite considerable scholarly attention to this Roman Catholic sacred order, no empirically-based study has yet aimed to theorise the process of becoming a permanent deacon. This paper addresses that gap by introducing a substantive theory, which elucidates the dominant behavioural patterns underlying the recruitment, selection, formation, and deployment of suitable candidates from the perspective of decision-makers. Employing classic grounded theory methodology in its entirety, this study draws upon interview, focus group, and textual data collected from the Liverpool Archdiocese in the United Kingdom. The article presents the resulting theory and its components, including the concepts of awakening sense of calling, assessing potentiality, enabling actuality, and facilitating discernment. While the study’s focus is specific to the context of the Liverpool Archdiocese, its insights hold broad relevance for decision-makers involved in Catholic dioceses worldwide.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed. |
| Keywords: | Diaconate, Deacon, Roman Catholic Church, ministry, Liverpool |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Peter McGrail |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2024 13:21 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2024 15:26 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4359 |
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