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Author: Anthony Mellor
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9004400311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Karl Rahner, Culture and Evangelization, Anthony Mellor outlines a process of contemporary evangelisation which seeks to develop modes of public “mystagogical conversation” by engaging the religious imagination and draw upon personal experiences of transcendence and religious sensibility.
Author: Brad Bursa
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-05-11
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1666735833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pope John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council so that the Church’s doctrine might be “more widely known, more deeply understood, and more penetrating in its effects.” However, since the close of the Council in 1965, the results are wanting. Rather than announcing the gospel boldly in the present age, the Church has been seemingly reduced to silence. How did she lose her voice? How did the structures of proclamation, intended to hand on the Catholic faith, devolve and even contribute to vaporizing a Catholic culture? Because He Has Spoken to Us traces such developments from fixed points drawn from the fluid theology of Karl Rahner to their postmodern condition—successive steps that usher in the crisis by subduing, dismissing, and silencing the tradition. This postconciliar anthropocentric structure can now be better understood, critiqued, and displaced by a Ratzingerian approach. Rather than embracing a “given” demanded by contemporary context, Ratzinger proposes the revelation of the Logos in Jesus Christ as the “given,” the true object of Christian faith. His alternate proposal requires the courage to face the full scope of the Christian structure, accessed through the Church’s tradition, and a willingness to proclaim the gospel personally and with humble confidence.
Author: Richard G. Cote
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780809136452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores mission and culture in the postmodern context of the United States by drawing upon the metaphor of marriage to illustrate the reciprocal relationship between faith and culture.
Author: Van Nam Kim
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0761863044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Multicultural Theology and New Evangelization sheds light on the central role of multiculturalism in the Catholic Church of the third millennium. In this book, Van Nam Kim addresses the challenges of new evangelization in the multicultural communities of the Church. Kim answers questions regarding how Catholics can fulfill their evangelical mission and looks at the special roles of religious sisters and lay Catholics, particularly women, in the Church. He also examines new procedures for forming future priests and the obligations of priests serving outside their homelands. Multicultural Theology and New Evangelization will inspire the Church hierarchy, seminary formators, priests, and the laity to rethink current approaches to Christian life and evangelization.
Author: Meins G.S. Coetsier
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-09-26
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9004523367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry Meins G.S. Coetsier offers a new account of Karl Rahner’s theological anthropology and the prison pastorate with a contemporary expansion for meaning, seeking an antidote to the suffering of those incarcerated with a “theology of empowerment.”
Author: Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R.
Publisher: New City Press
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 1565485661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the central elements of Francis’ vision of the Church as it sets out to preach the gospel to people of every nation and every walk of life. In four chapters, it examines the heart of his message and the focus of his vision for the future of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world. Central to that vision is his call to continue the new evangelization. He writes: “Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor, and for enabling them to be fully a part of society” (EG 187). The pope admits that neither he nor the Church has “a monopoly on the interpretation of social realities or the proposal of solutions to contemporary problems” (EG 184). He wishes, however, to contribute some constructive insights concerning our present situation. For Pope Francis, the joy of the gospel is simple: God wishes to live in our hearts. When we let God do so his Spirit dwells there, purging our imperfections and slowly divinizing us so that as free and faithful disciples we follow the way of the Lord Jesus.
Author: Walter Kasper
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0809106167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains writings from three different stages of Cardinal Walter Kasper’s theological journey. They seek to open up the gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that is intelligible to today’s readers. The works are: “An Introduction to the Faith,” “Surpassing All Knowledge,” and an original essay on evangelization, “New Evangelization as a Theological, Pastoral, and Spiritual Challenge.”
Author: Ambrose Mong
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1532656432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the ambivalence of folk Catholicism as a resource to fight against injustice, exploitation, and oppression. Cases are cited to illuminate the value and potential trespasses of popular religious beliefs and practices. Over centuries, representatives of the powerful middle and upper middle classes did not hesitate to manipulate popular piety to protect their power and privileges. In fact, much of popular religion still reflects the dominant ideology. Popular piety has the potential for liberation against unjust social and economic structures. When properly guided, this practice can broaden and deepen political consciousness and mobilize people to act. Without a strong level of political consciousness as well as liberative evangelization, popular religion will be alienating to the poor while strengthening the status quo of the rich and the powerful. This study argues that it will be the elites, the well-educated and committed Christians, not the masses, who would foster the transformation of society.
Author: Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-05-16
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1579106471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shenk contends that the engagement of the church with modern Western culture resulted in the marginalization of Christian faith and the undermining of the church's integrity. He maintains that when the church of the West is renewed, it will be a church of integrity and a clear sense of mission to its own culture.
