Review article
The position of youth in the Church and society in Croatia as a pastoral challenge
Danijel Crnić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
Abstract
In the first part of the article the author depicts the figure of a
young person within the existing cultural framework, on the basis of
related literature and the researches conducted, paying particular
attention to the cultural context and the ambience in which the
Church in Croatia today is. He is trying to emphasize some aspects
of positioning and profiles of the young in Croatian society. In the
second part the author discusses the basic issues of the young
viewed through social relations, pointing out the youth’s search
for religiosity within today’s dechristianized and ethically neutral
society in which young believers have differentially distanced from
the Church. In the third part the author is in pursuit of pastoral
models for the work with the young, perceiving today’s unenviable
situation and crisis of the pastoral with the young as a challenge
to create new models. He emphasizes the need for a new pastoral paradigm, the pre-condition of which is the pastoral conversion of
the Church, as well as a renewed model of a young Christian and
a renewed model of Christian community where brotherhood may
take hold. The basic intention is to come to the pastoral of the
young which will become recognized in cherishing the experience
of faith.
Keywords
new evangelization; new pastoral paradigm; pastorally converted Church; differentially-distanced Church affiliation
Hrčak ID:
70675
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2011.
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