Sentences with phrase «first evangelization»

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

Now, this first evangelization, in the early centuries of our era, took place slowly and peacefully.

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.

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»

Not exact matches

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.

A Franciscan renewal of twenty - first - century Catholicism will, of course, emphasize the works of charity and mercy as the entry point for evangelization, as I have just suggested.

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.

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

First through the YMCA, which staged a evangelization in Nuremberg, I got to know the gospel at the age of 21.

First, the frontier was ripe for evangelization, and some of what we now call the oldline denominations were in position to respond.

It was one of the first things to go in his long - standing campaign to streamline the church for evangelization.

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.

God willing, the new evangelization will happen, but let us not imagine that this time will be like the first time.

Bishop Barron rightly proposes the beautiful as the first stage in evangelization.

If there is to be a «new» evangelization, we first have to ask ourselves questions about the «old» one.

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.