And too often, we approach the New
Evangelization from a technocratic perspective.
Not exact matches
A fundraising letter
from the B'nai B'rith Foundation of the U.S. urges people to send in money to help «expose and overturn» last year's resolution of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to support the
evangelization of Jews.
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.
And, again, this form of evangelicalism so differs
from the others that the Germans have had to invent a new word, Evangelikal, to describe the growing evangelical self consciousness in Europe after the Lausanne Congress on
Evangelization that represented the neo-evangelical coalition.
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.
Had Pell not become archbishop of Melbourne, and later cardinal - archbishop of Sydney, it's a reasonable bet that Australian Catholicism today would resemble the Irish Church
from which the Church Down Under largely descends: scandal - ridden, demoralized, intellectually shoddy, and somewhere out on the far periphery of the New
Evangelization.
Thus,
from the outset the term «New
Evangelization» combines the commitment of allbaptised in society and in the world for the clear witnessing of the redemption of Christ.
But if the key question is where our greatest threat comes
from today, then my contention is that many advocates for the New
Evangelization in America have fatally misplaced their concern.
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.
In July 1974, 2,700 evangelical Protestants
from 150 nations gathered for the first International Congress on World
Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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.
At the onset of the Korean War, missionary personnel were vacated
from the peninsula, but U.N. military successes and the eventual armistice brought a new era in the
evangelization of South Korea.
In introducing the report, William Lazareth acknowledged the help received
from the reports of the Bangkok Conference on Salvation Today, of the Lausanne Congress on the
evangelization of the world, and of the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on
evangelization in the modern world.
Writing about Patriarch Kirill's visit to Rome late last May, Magister comments, «one great ally has already united with the pope
from outside of the Catholic Church, in this enterprise of a new
evangelization.
He quotes a couple
from his parish who he tells us, asked him «Father all this talk about
evangelization is great.
From HQ: How do you view or balance the idea of
evangelization or otherwise spreading the Good News with the colonial / imperialist history that has accompanied such efforts in the past and is still an influence today?
Last summer in San Antonio 500 leaders in Hispanic ministry — clergy, religious and laity —
from 110 Catholic dioceses gathered to discuss their situation and pledge their commitment to a new
evangelization of the professional world.
Thus referring to the idea of
evangelization amounts
from the outset to excluding the dream of seizing power.
Under the slogan «The
Evangelization of the World in This Generation» the Student Volunteer Movement enlisted thousands
from colleges, universities, and theological seminaries and spread to the British Isles and the Continent of Europe.
He's a bishop of the New
Evangelization who does a lot of his evangelical work retail: like treating potential seminarians to early morning pancakes at a greasy spoon — «but it's a good greasy spoon» — a couple of blocks
from his residence.
Having failed in his first
evangelization attempt he got counsel and an official mission
from Pope Gregory II.
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...