Not exact matches
It's a sincere strategy of
evangelization, a genuine belief that if we make the Church more flexible and «
modern,» more people will join.
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.
Finally, in October 1974 the Third General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops met in Rome to consider, «
Evangelization in the
Modern World».
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.
Nearly a hundred years ago, at the end of the 19th century, John R. Mott, one of the «fathers» of the
modern ecumenical movement, looked at the world and of the coming 20th century and confidently spoke of the «
evangelization of the world in the present generation».
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.