Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 94 No. 3, 2024.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.94.3.9
Catechesis of Adults in the Perspective of Evangelization and New Evangelization
Denis Barić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article, along with the introduction and concluding thoughts, consists of four parts. The first part discusses the necessity of understanding adult catechesis within the context of church activities, with an emphasis on understanding the discourse on the recipients of adult catechesis, the parish community as a privileged place for catechesis, and the content of adult catechesis. The second part focuses on the influence of evangelization and new evangelization on adult catechesis. Adult catechesis cannot be viewed outside the Church’s evangelizing mission, or outside new evangelization, which in contemporary times signifies a call for »novelty« in proclaiming and witnessing the gospel. Therefore, the third part elaborates on the identity of adult catechesis in the perspective of evangelization, striving to answer the question of what adult catechesis should consider in the perspective of evangelization, or what impulses evangelization provides for adult catechesis. The fourth part seeks to answer which impulses from the process of new evangelization are relevant for adult catechesis, relying on church documents and teachings, as well as the realities we inherit in daily life due to the development of new evangelization within a local church or, more specifically, within a parish community.
Keywords
adults; adult catechesis; evangelization; new evangelization; parish community.
Hrčak ID:
323605
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Publication date:
14.12.2024.
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