Sentences with phrase «evangelization by»

Varejãos early work resulted in graphic depictions highlighting historical inaccuracies and hierarchies of power during Brazil's colonial period, often referencing the subjugation of the native peoples by Portuguese conquistadors and the evangelization by Catholic missionaries.

If this is in fact the context, then pre «evangelization by teaching «natural theology» first makes a lot of sense» and the proposition needs, at least, to be publicized and debated.

Why can't their be ministries that involve not evangelizing by word — but helping the actual poor (evangelization by deed) for the sake of «it's the best thing to do»?

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

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The report, compiled by the Congregation for the Evangelization of...

Here we find the pope's great worry: At precisely the moment for the world's great evangelization and the great manifestation of love, the devices by which the world has been prepared — economic and technological — are excluding the charity and denying the truth that «judge and direct» human development.

Rowe, a Duke Divinity School professor of New Testament who is not a Catholic, thus makes an important contribution to the evangelical Catholicism of the future by reinforcing the biblical foundations of the new evangelization.

The authoritative interpretation of Vatican II by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI has focused this evolution through the prism of what these two men of the council have called the New Evangelization, which is now the grand strategy of the Catholic Church for the twenty - first century and beyond.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

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.

We believe evangelization is best served by boldness and clarity about the difference faith makes.

They are willing to engage in joint evangelization efforts with the indigenous churches in reaching their own people, or to focus through cross-cultural evangelism on areas not yet reached by the national churches.

But rather than putting such local churches back under the supervision of «Prop,» put them into trusteeship under the supervision of a reconstituted and re-staffed Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization — just as a failed company that goes into Chapter 11 bankruptcy is supervised by a trustee until such time as the company can stand on its own feet again.

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»

On October 11, Pope Francis addressed a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization celebrating the twenty - fifth anniversary of John Paul II's Catechism of the Catholic Church.

«Evangelization efforts by Protestant churches seem to be having an impact,» notes Pew.

I am not second - guessing the New Evangelization because I want to dissuade enthusiastic proclaimers of the Gospel, but rather because I hope that, by taking a more careful look at our own obstacles and charting our course accordingly, we can make our evangelization that much mEvangelization because I want to dissuade enthusiastic proclaimers of the Gospel, but rather because I hope that, by taking a more careful look at our own obstacles and charting our course accordingly, we can make our evangelization that much mevangelization that much more effective.

The point missiologists would add is that evangelization did not succeed by assimilating local cultures but by converting them.

Evangelization in the broadest sense is proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ to all people and bringing that gospel to bear, by word and deed, on the totality of things.

Schaeffer created much consternation among fellow evangelicals by threatening not to appear at the rostrum of the International Congress on World Evangelization which convened in July of 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In short, evangelization proceeds by a strategy of co-optation.

They faced them but countered by saying that if the first generation of Christianity could accomplish so much, then certainly they could, under Christ, accomplish the evangelization of the world in their generation.

The urgency of the group was expressed by Mott when he said: «Every reason for doing this work of evangelization at all demands that it be done not only thoroughly but also as speedily as possible.

This plain diocesan priest did enjoy the foreword to the new edition by Member of Parliament David Alton in which he underscores the importance of ECT for sectarian strife in Northern Ireland and for evangelization in England, where less than 10 percent of the population attends church.

Thus the new evangelization that marked the beginnings of Evangelicalism as a renewal movement within Christianity began on premises similar to those outlined by Weigel.

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

This is in part what liberation theology means by mission in reverse: the evangelization of the rich by the poor.

It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.

Leaders, in the organic view, have none of the singular authority given by mechanists to leaders of growing churches, who are «motivated by the assurance that they have understood the revealed will of God for world evangelization and that they are attuned to what God expects to accomplish through them.

They tend to be more skeptical of the interreligious dialogue favored by Catholics and mainline Protestants, and more likely to pursue evangelization.

Peter Faber, SJ, one of the great figures of the Catholic Reformation; and by doing so, gave us a key to understanding his own approach to the new evangelization, and a model for spreading the faith in modern times.

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

Displaying the enthusiasm of a time committed to the evangelization of the world in one generation the Movement engaged in a highly organized form of evangelism, carrying out a planned campaign by outstanding businessmen in several major cities.

Speaking last October to the International Congress of Military Ordinariates, Pope Benedict declared: «The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and witness to Christ, and to promote his gospel of peace and love in every environment and every culture.»

In calling for a new evangelization, the Pope precisely chose as a model what happened before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, in other words, before it could even be tempted to impose its creed by means of political coercion.

Guadalupe provides the spark which will allow the people to rise out of the realm of death like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the past — not just a return to the past but the emergence of a spectacular newness.10 In sharp contrast to the total rupture with the past which was initiated by the conquest - evangelization enterprise, Guadalupe provided the necessary sense of continuity which is basic to human existence.

Anyone who rereads in the New Testament the origins of the Church, follows her history step by step and watches her live and act, sees that she is linked to evangelization in her most intimate being.

The campus consists of five primary structures, dominated by the four story World Evangelization Center, the original offices built on the site and completely renovated in 2005.

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...

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