Sentences with word «evangelization»

As for the present, is the idea of new evangelization a sign of the totalitarian character of the Roman Church, if not of Christianity as a whole?

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.

In July 1974, 2,700 evangelical Protestants from 150 nations gathered for the first International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Though the Church's growing focus on evangelization of the «Nones» is encouraging, there have been recent discussions emanating from several prominent figures in Rome and throughout Church leadership regarding a so - called «paradigm shift» relative to doctrine, the supremacy of individual conscience, and pastoral accommodation.

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.

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.

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.

About Blog There can be no New Evangelization without a New Emangelization, creating generations of Catholic men on fire for Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church.

Because of its respect for other religions, it is at best ambivalent about evangelization of non-Christians.

Having failed in his first evangelization attempt he got counsel and an official mission from Pope Gregory II.

And too often, we approach the New Evangelization from a technocratic perspective.

It may be a requirement for effective evangelization, apologetics and catechesis, but it is difficult to see how it could itself be a salvific truth.

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

We need a mission theology and spirituality in which evangelization will mean announcing the radically challenging story of Jesus with its beauty and its tragedy, its rich humanity and undying hope; telling it by living it, and spelling it out in word and song.

Pattaya focused on the worldwide evangelization task, in terms of specific strategies for reaching tribes, cultures, communities and groups as yet unaware of the gospel.

Chilean Pentecostalism shares the basic characteristics of the Pentecostal identity: an emphasis on evangelization oriented to conversion, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church as a charismatic and healing community, the belief in a spiritual world, and the anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ.

The old evangelization proclaimed the Good News among pagan, pre-Christian peoples to whom it came as something new.

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.

It was the Catholicism that converted much of the Western Hemisphere and began the modern evangelization of Africa and Asia.

Help people in spiritual pain, and so it became clear that the Daughters of St. Paul were it for me (evangelization with media).

Yet the connection between evangelization in the name of Jesus and the mission of help and healing has also been an issue for debate, especially in the 20th century.

But, the better reason to accept being in the experience design business is that experiences lend extremely well to additional marketing necessities like affinity, trust, attention and brand evangelization.

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.

The Church of the New Evangelization affirms the need for rules — for canon law — while understanding that too narrow a focus on the canonical boundaries of membership obscures both real problems of Catholic identity and their possible solutions.

Evangelical Catholicism therefore sees in the pre-baptismal preparation of parents and godparents the opportunity for a deeper evangelization that can no longer be imagined to have already taken place through the ambient culture.

Yes, some have drunk the diversity Kool - Aid and think evangelization a form of cultural imperialism, but for the most part Catholics are triumphalists.

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

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.

The focus on the new evangelization gave the Holy Father the opportunity to speak of a dual theme that is proving to be central to his papacy — that is, unity in diversity, and unity in mission.

The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.

The Council insists that it is not opposed to evangelization per se.

Unfortunately, the New Evangelization here in the United States is often presented in contrast only to the first half of each of these dichotomies, set off against those errors that I am arguing are least relevant to our own cultural circumstances.

What concerns me is simply the typical American unpacking of the New Evangelization programme.

I would not begrudge Weigel his continued evangelization to a certain subset of the American Church, but I can not agree with his prioritization scheme.

Similarly, the mission of his followers in the second and third centuries had been one of help and healing, not of evangelization alone.

«If this seems countercultural, that is simply further evidence of the urgent need for a renewed evangelization of culture.»

What followed over the next fifteen years were nine conferences and consultations on topics as diverse as «Gospel and Culture,» «Muslim Evangelization,» «Simple Lifestyle,» «Evangelism and Social Responsibility,» and «Faith and Modernity.»

After calling for clarification of this seemingly arbitrary «proselytization vs. evangelization» distinction, Moore and Ezell conclude thus:

Finally, in 1886, Moody started the Bible - Work Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (renamed Moody Bible Institute shortly before his death), one of the first in the Bible school movement.

In recent years, William E. Simon, Jr. shifted his professional focus from investment management to the Church, and a first result of that vocational redeployment is Great Catholic Parishes: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive (Ave Maria)-- a portrait of the rich diversity of Catholic life in the United States, especially in those local churches that have taken the New Evangelization seriously.

A quarter millennium after the composer's death, this quality of his music provides Christianity with a curious inroad to a group of people who in the past had resisted evangelization more effectively than any other: Japan's elite.

Wholehearted evangelization and uncompromising catechesis are not the enemies of ecumenism.

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