Review article
This People's Leaders Have Taken the Wrong Turning, and Those Who are Led are Lost (Is 9,15)
Josip Čorić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Split
Abstract
Following the development of Church from its appearance in
public after Peter's speech and the elated and brave adoption of the
message (comp. Ac 2), whose fruits were almost ideallv realized in
the first communities (comp. Ac 4,32-35), and up to the present
days, we are the witnesses of similar events of saving in the bosom
of it. Its message is not always accepted with the enthusiasm of the
first Christian communities. After ali, not without difficulties did the
word spread among them as well (comp. Ac 6).
One cannot remain indifferent observing sometimes very
meagre fruits of conversion, not only today but also in the first
Church, in spite of briliiant expressions of the faithful heralds of
good news (comp. Paul's speech before the Council of the Areopagus,
Ac 17,22-34). The dialectal strain betvveen the prociamation and
reverberation of the proclaimed word in the people's hearts remains
a mystery of the Church in the past, the present and, we believe, the future of it. The author is trying to plunge into that dialectics pointing
out the role and responsibility of every Christian in the realisation of
its mission. Above ali, he spotlights the prophetic role of those who
are the most responsible in spreading the good news, i.e. the leaders
of God's people - the ordained priests. The author is also trying to
touch on the most important areas at which the Church's Uberating
activities are performed. He uses some popular and carried out
empirical data as well as his own deep, personal experience gained
in the various fields of his pastoral activities, especiallv those of a
parish priest, and others as well.
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38791
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Publication date:
21.12.2004.
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