Thesis advisor: Richard Lennan / Thesis advisor: Margaret E. Guider / As the Archdiocese of Boston continues to heal from the clergy sexual abuse crisis, it is engaged in a pastoral planning process designed to prepare parishes for the task of evangelization. According to the 2012 Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization, the goal of evangelization is to “create the possibility” for an encounter and relationship with Jesus. To create the possibility for people to encounter Jesus Christ in faith, the implementation of the New Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Boston at this point in its history must focus on two aspects: healing the inner life of the Church, its communio, through a process of conversion and reconciliation and engaging the Church in the missio given it by Jesus by becoming a church of the poor. This paper begins with a presentation of the New Evangelization as described in papal and other ecclesial documents highlighting several principal themes: the context and content of the New Evangelization, the Church and the poor, Christian witness, conversion, reconciliation, Christian hope, and apologetics. Following a brief overview of the North American context in which evangelization must take place, the third chapter focuses on conversion as a response in love to God’s invitation to live in the love of the triune God and on reconciliation as the healing of relationships through celebrations of reconciliation and through the work of the church community. The fourth chapter presents the challenge of becoming a Church of the poor by which the Church comes into closer relationship with Jesus who is present in the suffering poor. Finally, the hope to which God calls us is eternal life in the loving communion of the Father, Son, and Spirit in the Kingdom of God. Christian hope is the virtue that sustains us on our way to the fulfillment of God’s Kingdom while in the midst of its non-fulfillment. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Em 1549, os primeiros missionários cristãos chegaram ao arquipélago japonês a fim de evangelizar a população nativa. Chegaram poucos anos após os comerciantes portugueses, mas não ficaram sob sua proteção. Ao contrário destes, não ficaram apenas nas cidades portuárias, mas adentraram-se no território japonês que passava por um século de sangrentas guerras, num longo processo de unificação do território por um poder central, que só terminaria no século seguinte. Os jesuítas, ordem que manteve o monopólio da evangelização do Japão até o ano de 1593, acabaram por se envolver no complexo jogo político de então, à procura de patronos e proteção para que pudessem espalhar o Evangelho dentre a população nativa. Sem qualquer proteção garantida a maneira que encontraram para cristianizar os japoneses foi implicarem-se na política local tentando convencê-los de que o cristianismo era a verdadeira religião. A forma como se deveria dar esse processo de convencimento não foi, contudo, consenso entre os jesuítas, que acabaram se dividindo acerca do melhor método. Se de um lado o Visitador Geral das Índias Orientais, Alexandre Valignano, formulou um método inovador, denominado pelo próprio como acomodação (ou accomodattio em italiano), uma outra parcela da ordem, encabeçada pelo segundo superior da missão japonesa, Francisco Cabral, discordava, afirmando que o processo de evangelização deveria sempre priorizar os regramentos da Ordem para não correr o perigo de extraviar a mensagem. O objetivo da presente dissertação é, portanto, mapear e compreender essas duas diferentes estratégias de evangelização, tanto para a missão para a qual foi criada, no Japão, quanto para os seus agentes, os jesuítas. / In 1549, the first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan to evangelize the natives. They arrived some yearsafter the Portuguese traders, but did not stay under their protection. On the contrary, the missionaries entered the Japanese territory by their selves, while the traders stayed only in the port cities. At that time Japan was emerged in many civil wars in a period called Sengoku Jidai (the country at war). The Jesuits the denomination that hold the monopoly of the Japanese mission until 1593 saw their selves involved in a complicated political plot. As they could not count on any secular protection, they chose to look for the warlords (daimy) protection to accomplish the evangelization of the Japanese people. The only way for that was the convincement of the people that Christianity was the true religion. Nevertheless, even among the Jesuits that went to the Japanese mission, there was not a consensus about the best way to convince the Japanese to become Christians. The Visitor of the Jesuits missions in Asia, Alexandre Valignano, designed a new method called accomodatio, but some Jesuits were against it. Led by the second Superior of the Japanese mission, Francisco Cabral, they claimed that accomodatio was not the best way once it could mislead the neophytes. What they should do, in Cabrals point of view, was to follow strictly the rules of the Society of Jesus. The aim of this essay is to understand these two methods of evangelization and their meaning for both the Jesuits and the Japanese.

Quels sont les liens entre le renforcement du pouvoir monarchique, d'évolution des méthodes de prédication et la persistance des identités religieuses minoritaires? Au XVIe siècle, les vieux chrétiens d'Espagne ont fait des efforts considérables pour convertir tous les infidèles à la foi catholique. Après avoir contraints les musulmans d'Espagne à se faire baptiser, ils tentèrent de les amener à adhérer « de cœur » à la foi catholique et à se comporter en bons chrétiens. Pour cela, ils eurent recours tant à la persécution qu'à la prédication. Si les historiens ont déjà bien étudié la persécution, notre connaissance des campagnes de prédication demeurait parcellaire. Cette thèse se propose d'y remédier en étudiant les méthodes d'évangélisation des Morisques valenciens entre 1492et 1570.Pour y parvenir, cette thèse étudie les manuels publiés pour soutenir l'effort missionnaire tout au long du siècle. Elle propose que les méthodes d'évangélisation des prédicateurs ont évolué d'une période privilégiant les arguments polémiques à une période mettant l'accent sur l'instruction catéchétique. Ce faisant, les méthodes employées ont mis davantage l'accent sur la responsabilité des Morisques dans le processus de leur propre conversion, plutôt que sur la responsabilité reposant sur le prédicateur de les convaincre d'adhérer au catholicisme. Nous avons ainsi constaté que le passage à ce que nous avons qualifié de « période catéchétique » correspond à l'augmentation en intensité des persécutions.En étudiant les campagnes de prédication dans le royaume de Valence, cette thèse reconstitue les situations où les manuels de polémique (les « antialcorans ») et les catéchismes étaient utilisés. Elle montre comment les méthodes des prédicateurs étaient déterminées par les cadres institutionnels établis. Le passage de la polémique au catéchisme a été guidé en partie par le contexte européen de la Réforme, qui incitait à bannir la polémique religieuse en langue vernaculaire et à catéchiser les populations, et en partie par les enjeux sécuritaires qui faisaient craindre toute révolte des Morisques. Les prédicateurs furent ainsi incités à faire preuve le plus souvent de discrétion. Par ailleurs, les campagnes ont considérablement été handicapées par la contradiction qu'il y avait à considérer les Morisques à la fois comme des musulmans qu'il fallait convaincre, des nouveaux convertis qu'il fallait instruire et des mauvais chrétiens qui devraient être châtiés.En conclusion, la thèse propose une redéfinition du concept d'intégration qui soit adaptée à la réalité de l'histoire morisque et suggère des explications pour comprendre comment les dynamiques disciplinaires de la Monarchie catholique espagnole ont favorisé le repli des Morisques sur leur ethnicité. / What links are there amongst the reinforcement of monarchical power, the evolution in methods of preaching, and the persistence of minority religious identities? In the XIVth century, the old Christians of Spain made considerable efforts to convert infidels to the catholic faith. After having pressured the Muslims of Spain into being baptized, they attempted to open their hearts to the catholic faith and to behave like good Christians. In order to do this, they had recourse as much to persecution as to preaching. While persecution has been well studied by historians, our understanding of preaching remains fragmented. This thesis seeks to remedy this by studying methods of evangelizing Valencian Moors between 1492 and 1570.In order to do so, this thesis studies the published manuals used in support of missionary efforts over the course of the century. It suggests that the evangelizing methods of preachers evolved out of a period privileging polemical argumentation over catechetical instruction. The methods used thus focussed primarily on encouraging Moors to take responsibility for their own conversion, rather than placing responsibility with the preacher to convince them to embrace Catholicism. We therefore observe that the transition to what we call the “catechetical period” corresponds to an increase in the intensity of persecution.In studying preaching campaigns in the kingdom of Valencia, this thesis reconstructs the contexts in which these polemical manuals (“antialcorans”) and Catechisms were utilized. It shows how preaching methods were shaped by their institutional contexts. The transition from polemics to Catechism was guided in part by the reaction to the Protestant Reforms that sought to banish religious polemics in the vernacular and to catechize populations, and in part by security concerns and fear that that the Moors would revolt. Preachers were thus encouraged to use their discretion. However, these campaigns were considerably crippled by the contradictions that lay in considering Moors at once as Muslims to be converted, new converts in need of instruction, and bad Christians to be punished.The thesis concludes by proposing a redefinition of the concept of integration, adapted to the reality of Moorish history and offers explanations in order understand how the disciplinary dynamics of the Spanish Catholic Monarchy encouraged Moors to fallback on their ethnicity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celso Luiz Tracco.pdf: 642808 bytes, checksum: aa72383a321cac39dd3419a6b03056da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-25 / The main goal of this research is to study the evangelization model of urban performed by the Basic Ecclesial Communities. During the European occupation of the American continent, especially in Brazil, the metropolis carried out a violent imposition of habits, culture, religion and political system on their colonies. The process of evangelization was very much alike, compulsory and with no room for discussions, even though there was absolutely no concern in creating a deep general knowledge of faith. In Brazil, during the colonial and imperial periods, all persons were born catholic by imperial decree. This study assumes that religion must be seen as a part of a social, political and economic context, hence, the research includes the socioeconomic and political building of the Brazilian society. The evangelization model proposed by the Basic Ecclesial Communities is a Brazilian phenomenon, typical of the country s culture and with its origins in the lower and excluded classes. This model would not be possible without the social changes and the opening of the church as an institution to those changes, which took place in Brazil during the mid-20th century. A new, groundbreaking, form of evangelization was only possible thanks to the initiative of a clergy concerned with the poor social conditions of its people. This study intends to understand the scope of this evangelizing method and its possible extent nowadays. The evangelization led to a reflection of the existential reality and also to a political questioning, until then dominated by the Brazilian elites. This political extrapolation from the traditional channels of the church was strongly criticized by traditionalist sectors of power. Also, the new evangelizing experience was put under judgment by the ecclesiastical authorities. This study intends to investigate if the Basic Ecclesial Communities model - a new model of church, a people s church has a place in the evangelization of today s society / O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar um modelo de evangelização nos centros urbanos a partir da experiência originária das Comunidades Eclesiais de Base. O processo de ocupação territorial, levado a efeito pela conquista europeia do continente americano, e mais especificamente do Brasil, foi uma imposição violenta e oficial de costumes, cultura, religião e sistema político por parte das metrópoles às suas colônias. Na evangelização da fé católica o processo foi o mesmo, imposto obrigatoriamente; como não havia possibilidade de questionamentos, também não houve preocupações maiores com um aprofundamento dos conhecimentos da fé. Nascia-se católico, por um decreto imperial, primeiro nos tempos da colônia e depois durante o império brasileiro. Partimos da premissa que a religião deve ser vista dentro de um contexto social, político e econômico, portanto, faz parte desta pesquisa a formação sócio-econômica e política da sociedade brasileira. O modelo de evangelização proposto pelas Comunidades de Base, um fenômeno de origem brasileira sem a importação de modelos europeus tão característicos de nossa cultura, partindo da base, do povo humilde e excluído, só foram possíveis graças às transformações sociais e à abertura da Igreja-instituição para essas mudanças, que ocorreram em nosso país durante meados do século XX. Uma nova forma de evangelização, apoiada em métodos que quebravam paradigmas, só foi possível pela iniciativa do clero preocupado com as reais condições sociais de seu povo. Este estudo procura entender o alcance daquele modelo evangelizador e sua possível extensão na atualidade. Esta evangelização levou à reflexão da realidade existencial e ao questionamento político, até então dominado pelas elites brasileiras. A possível extrapolação da política dentro dos canais tradicionais da Igreja, foi duramente questionada pelos setores tradicionalistas e a experiência evangelizadora colocada sob julgamento das instâncias eclesiásticas. Este estudo procura analisar se as Comunidades Eclesiais de Base, uma nova forma de ser Igreja, uma Igreja popular, tem lugar na evangelização nos dias de hoje.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcus Vinicius Andrade Santos.pdf: 1643178 bytes, checksum: 54dbdf986b0d09c46a6ae1f564db0dcc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-18 / ADVENIAT / When we aim to present the two proposed dimensions given by the approaching theme from this work, we seek to highlight the New Evangelization and how it is inserted in the contemporaneity. On the other hand, knowing the secularization process, its distinct approaches and its unfolding in History and in the scientific thought, it allows us to see the evangelizing challenge of the Church with the right sobriety before the permanent and necessary witness which faith must present on the reasons that motivate it. Verifying these two worlds which are present at the same environment where life happens, it permits us to dialogue and even to realize, concerning to Christian Faith or to the secularization process the dimensions are converged into the same sense and how each of them provide concept borders. Besides the important approaches on the process of secularization and how the priest of the Synod reflected on the present of it in the Ecclesial environments, this work also aims to express a new comprehension of the evangelization concept and the new evangelization in this current proposed stage that is offered to the whole Church starting from the Synod of Bishops from 2012 which culminated in the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis Evangelii Gaudium. We know that the result of this Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium reunites on itself the Sentire cum Ecclesia not only from an institutional epicenter but an ecclesial feeling from the universality considering life, culture and each particular experience of the Church which is present in the world as a precious contribution to a whole Ecclesial tissue. The Document of Aparecida, as well as the V General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate were signs that led the Church to propose a new universal convocation to the New Evangelization not only continental but also through greater dimensions by having the Synod of 2012 as a reference. The conclusion I present is that we can go deeper in this new paradigm and in these new programmatic contents that convoke the Church to a permanent pastoral conversion. Learning how to discern the signs of the times and being present in History thought a fruitful attitude of reframing of all means and structures, such as customs and tendencies, so that the Church may see Herself less tied by secondary elements, expressing Her evangelic strength in the world, and being a eschatologic and historical signs of the Kingdom of Heavens among the contemporaries / Ao apresentarmos as duas dimensões propostas pelo tema de abordagem deste trabalho, buscamos dar um destaque a Nova Evangelização e como ela se coloca na contemporaneidade. Conhecer por outro lado o processo de secularização e suas distintas abordagens e desdobramento na história e no pensamento cientifico nos permite olhar para o desafio evangelizador da Igreja com a devida sobriedade frente ao necessário e permanente testemunho que a fé deve apresentar das razões que a animam. Fazer a verificação destes dois mundos presentes no mesmo ambiente em que a vida acontece permite-nos dialogar e até mesmo perceber, seja no que se refere à fé cristã, seja o que se refere ao processo de secularização as dimensões que convergem em um mesmo sentido e no que um coloca ao outro fronteiras conceituais. Procuramos neste trabalho além da importante abordagem do processo de secularização e o modo como os Padres sinodais refletiram sobre a presença do mesmo nos ambientes eclesiais, abordar também uma nova compreensão do conceito de evangelização e nova evangelização nesta atual etapa proposta e oferecida a toda a Igreja a partir do Sínodo dos Bispos de 2012, e que culminou na Exortação Apostólica Evangelii Gaudium do Papa Francisco. Sabemos que o resultado desta Exortação Apostólica Evangelii Gaudium, reuni em si o Sentire cum Eclesia , não apenas a partir de um epicentro institucional, mas um sentir eclesial a partir da universalidade considerando o particular de cada experiência, cultura e vida dos diferentes rostos da Igreja presente no mundo como um precioso contributo ao todo do tecido eclesial. O Documento de Aparecida, assim como a V Conferência Geral do Episcopado Latino-Americano e do Caribe foram sinais que levaram a Igreja a propor através de dimensões maiores e não somente continentais, uma nova convocação universal a Nova Evangelização tendo como referência o Sínodo de 2012. A conclusão que apresento é que podemos adentrar mais profundamente neste novo paradigma e nestes novos conteúdos programáticos que convocam a Igreja a uma permanente conversão pastoral. Aprender a discernir os sinais dos tempos e se fazer presente na história através de uma frutuosa atitude de resignificação de todos os meios e estruturas, como de costumes ou tendências, para que a Igreja se veja menos atada por elementos secundários, expressando sua força evangélica no mundo, e sendo um sinal escatológico e histórico do Reino dos Céus em meio aos seus contemporâneos

Em 1549, os primeiros missionários cristãos chegaram ao arquipélago japonês a fim de evangelizar a população nativa. Chegaram poucos anos após os comerciantes portugueses, mas não ficaram sob sua proteção. Ao contrário destes, não ficaram apenas nas cidades portuárias, mas adentraram-se no território japonês que passava por um século de sangrentas guerras, num longo processo de unificação do território por um poder central, que só terminaria no século seguinte. Os jesuítas, ordem que manteve o monopólio da evangelização do Japão até o ano de 1593, acabaram por se envolver no complexo jogo político de então, à procura de patronos e proteção para que pudessem espalhar o Evangelho dentre a população nativa. Sem qualquer proteção garantida a maneira que encontraram para cristianizar os japoneses foi implicarem-se na política local tentando convencê-los de que o cristianismo era a verdadeira religião. A forma como se deveria dar esse processo de convencimento não foi, contudo, consenso entre os jesuítas, que acabaram se dividindo acerca do melhor método. Se de um lado o Visitador Geral das Índias Orientais, Alexandre Valignano, formulou um método inovador, denominado pelo próprio como acomodação (ou accomodattio em italiano), uma outra parcela da ordem, encabeçada pelo segundo superior da missão japonesa, Francisco Cabral, discordava, afirmando que o processo de evangelização deveria sempre priorizar os regramentos da Ordem para não correr o perigo de extraviar a mensagem. O objetivo da presente dissertação é, portanto, mapear e compreender essas duas diferentes estratégias de evangelização, tanto para a missão para a qual foi criada, no Japão, quanto para os seus agentes, os jesuítas. / In 1549, the first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan to evangelize the natives. They arrived some yearsafter the Portuguese traders, but did not stay under their protection. On the contrary, the missionaries entered the Japanese territory by their selves, while the traders stayed only in the port cities. At that time Japan was emerged in many civil wars in a period called Sengoku Jidai (the country at war). The Jesuits the denomination that hold the monopoly of the Japanese mission until 1593 saw their selves involved in a complicated political plot. As they could not count on any secular protection, they chose to look for the warlords (daimy) protection to accomplish the evangelization of the Japanese people. The only way for that was the convincement of the people that Christianity was the true religion. Nevertheless, even among the Jesuits that went to the Japanese mission, there was not a consensus about the best way to convince the Japanese to become Christians. The Visitor of the Jesuits missions in Asia, Alexandre Valignano, designed a new method called accomodatio, but some Jesuits were against it. Led by the second Superior of the Japanese mission, Francisco Cabral, they claimed that accomodatio was not the best way once it could mislead the neophytes. What they should do, in Cabrals point of view, was to follow strictly the rules of the Society of Jesus. The aim of this essay is to understand these two methods of evangelization and their meaning for both the Jesuits and the Japanese.

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2006.

[pt] A presente tese traz como título Evangelização como Ação Contextual- Libertadora – Um Estudo Teológico Pastoral da Teologia de Orlando Costas. Ela tem como objetivo posicionar a proposição da Teologia da Evangelização Contextual do referido autor como um horizonte epistemológico adequado para se (re)pensar a teologia pastoral, e mais especificamente o caráter evangelizador da Igreja nos dias atuais. Isto se dá principalmente pelo fato de que Costas desenvolve um método teológico com abrangência contextual e histórica que tem seu cerne em uma teologia eminentemente dialógica. Como os novos dias se configuram não apenas como um novo locus para a vivência da fé cristã, mas também para a proclamação das boas novas do reino, esta pesquisa acentua a necessidade de se desenvolver uma (re)nova(da) leitura da missão da Igreja, à luz do reino de Deus. Inspirados na dinâmica trinitária os cristãos podem encontrar possibilidades criativas de responder à interpelação divina de amor-serviço, entendendo que a missão cristã é a continuidade, na força do Espírito, da missão libertadora que brota do coração de Deus, transbordante de amor pela sua criação. Neste sentido, esta tese contribui ainda para a recuperação de um serviço evangelizador que se realiza como transbordamento do amor divino na realidade humana, que convida os homens e mulheres a uma experiência de fé articulada não como dogma, adesão religiosa ou mera experiência de êxtase, mas como uma orientação peculiar da existência que interpela a liberdade humana a fazer uma opção pelo Deus trinitário como fonte de vida. / [en] The present dissertation has the title Evangelism as Contextual-Liberating Action, a Theological Pastoral Study of the Theology of Orlando Costas. It has the goal to locate a proposition of the Theology of Contextual Evangelism of the mentioned author with an appropriate epistemological horizon in order to reconsider a pastoral theology, and more specifically the evangelistic character of the Church in the present days. This is done mainly by the fact that Costas develops a theological method with contextual and historical broadness which has its key in a theology which is eminently dialogical. As the present days are configured not only as a new locus for living the Christian faith, but also as the proclamation of the good news of the kingdom, this research emphasizes the need to develop a (re)new(ed) reading about the mission of the Church, in the light of the kingdom of God. Inspired by the trinitarian dynamic, Christians can find creative possibilities to respond to the divine summons to love-in-service, understanding that Christian Mission is a continuity, in the strength of the Spirit, of the liberating mission which flows from the heart of God, his overflowing love for his creation. In this sense, this dissertation offers a contribution to recover an evangelistic service which realizes itself as overflowing God’s love in the human context, inviting men and women to an experience of faith which is articulated not as a dogma, religious adhesion or a simple experience of ecstasy, but as a specific orientation of their existence, which challenges human freedom to make an option for the Trinitarian God as the source of life.

Thesis refers to the topic of differences in depth of experiencing the faith. It attempts to point out the importance of continuous self-consecration and building relationship with God. Evangelization is the main responsibility of the Church. It is aimed within the Church to ensure the spiritual growth of the faithful and also beyond to spread the glad tidings. Thesis provides examples of these actions through the description of the selected evangelization programs as Koinonia John the Baptist, Light-Life movement, Parish Evangelization Cells, House of Prayer and the Alpha course.

This diploma thesis deals with the history and development of Catholic missions in Bolivian Chiquitánia since the 16th century to the present time. The work is divided into 7 chapters, which gradually evolve the historical context of evangelistic efforts in this area against the background of the colonial social system, which was replaced by other forms of economic and social relations, often unfair and abusive within the Indian populations, during the next centuries. The basis of this work is the exploration and analysis of resources, aimed at comparing the Jesuit Evangelization Mission in XVII. - XVIII. centuries and the situation in XX. century to the present. The final chapter is devoted to a concrete example of evangelization in the educational field, where the personal experience, observation and knowledge of the author are also used.