Sentences with phrase «christian evangelization»

They are equally germane to the challenges of modern Christian evangelization and missionary activity and, in retrospect, equally pertinent to the dilemma of modern colonialization.

What difference is there, then, between Christian evangelization and colonization?

In his 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer), John Paul II spoke of the third millennium as «a springtime of Christian evangelization.»

Those critics who condemn such a medium as unfit for Christian evangelization or worship require much more thoughtful consideration than Howard and Streck give them.

Not exact matches

In twenty interviews, longtime friends and associates of the pope «from the ends of the earth» give readers real insight into the radical Christian disciple who is leading the Church «into the deep» of the new evangelization, following the call of John Paul II in 2001.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

They evince a vibrant confidence that, as we cross the threshold of the Third Millennium, we may be entering upon the greatest era of evangelization in all of Christian history.

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.

For John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the Magna Carta of the New Evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the former.

As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been Continue Reading»

Jesus» service, then, was a means to gentle evangelization and that is perhaps something these Christian businessmen and women should consider, even if it seems counterintuitive to the character of evangelization, as Americans understand it.

Not only is this world invisible to the authors, they are also apparently unaware of how big an impediment «Christian» music is to the evangelization of musicians who hold C — Pop in professional contempt.

«We are committed to bringing tradition forward into modernity, without failing to conserve its essence, in an attempt to help till the soil of a new age of evangelization and Christian discipleship,» one of the founders, John Riess, tells us.

As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been raised from the dead, has been constituted Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins.

Yet he turns his lodgings into a center of evangelization, calling the Roman Jewish community to consider Jesus anew and to reconsider the criticisms of the new Christian «sect» they had heard, while explaining how God, in the Spirit, had extended life - giving salvation to the Gentiles.

If Christians find themselves in a nation that is not Christian, then evangelization should be a top priority.

Another of the purposes of this book is to challenge ourselves to learn from one another mutually as Christians, and our interpretation of it will depend on how we understand the work of evangelization and mission.

Moreover, as it warned in an editorial on the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, evangelism must not be confused with the Christian responsibility for genuine social concern.»

For most Christians, technology can add welcome new means for evangelization and catechesis.

The number of adult converts per year has been growing steadily and is testimony, in part, to the success of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), a program of evangelization and catechesis begun after the Second Vatican Council.

A month earlier, the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith was convened in Rome.

There is a growing awareness among the churches today of the inextricable relationship between Christian unity and missionary calling, between ecumenism and evangelization.

And the Pope himself has never set his idea of a new evangelization in opposition to the Church's effort at dialogue and reconciliation both among Christian denominations and between Christians and non-Christians.

The imperative for Christian unity, to which ECT bears witness, is directly related to the task of world evangelization.

In this work Kader Attia investigates the Vatican's holdings of art from Africa, much of which was plundered by Christian missionaries in the context of their evangelization efforts on...