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Struggles in Mission Theology

Julije Rogina-Matarić

Abstract

After pointing out the problem in Mission Theology today, the author spells out the source and the raison d'être for the missionary activity of the Church. He is deeply convinced that this is a special time, a kairos, for the missionaries. It is the time of grace, the time of judgment, the time of decision. The universal sacrament of Christ, the Church, has reached the ends of the earth, even out to space, but has not yet inspired full personal conversion or structural transformation. At this moment in the twentieth century, the world is more in need of missionary activity than ever before. Many new and subtle forms of materialism and oppression engulf us.
The author thinks that the only reason for someone to go to a foreign country as a missionary would be charismatic. This means that a person striving to be open to the sanctifying movements of the Spirit comes to an a awarness that the best way for him to encounter Christ is to give himself away in a response of service to the people... all the people.

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Hrčak ID:

58023

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/58023

Publication date:

23.8.1976.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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