Original scientific paper
MODERNIZATION OF THE MODEL OF THE PASTORAL CARE OF CULTURE AS A PASTORAL PRIORITY. RELIGION AND CULTURE IN DIALOGUE
Nikola Vranješ
; Theology of Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Although they in themselves require theological-pastoral distinction and
respect of separate specifications, the inculturation of faith and the pastoral care
of culture necessarily jointly point to some priorities of the Church’s activity
which are related to both separate areas. This is especially true in today’s complex
socio-cultural and pastoral situation. The inculturation of faith, as one of
the initial and fundamental activities of the Church is in this regard an impetus
for further pastoral consolidation and spread of the shaped elements of connecting
faith and culture. This precisely is the ongoing task of the pastoral care of
culture as a specific area of Church engagement. The fundamental priority in
this pastoral area today is the modernization and further adapted positioning
of its models within the framework of contemporary cultures. It is important
to place special emphasis on the actualization of appropriate modern models
of action in relation to the cultures and subcultures of the city. In this respect,
the project of Rijeka as the European Capital of Culture in 2020 is a special
stimulus for the discernment of this topic. This paper is placed in the logic of
the theological-pastoral discernment of the priority for the modernization of the
model of the pastoral care of culture.
Keywords
Pastoral Care; Culture; Society; Church; Modernization; Rijeka ECOC 2020
Hrčak ID:
255039
URI
Publication date:
6.4.2021.
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