Thesis (M.T.S.)--Catholic Theological Union, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-56).

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.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [49]-[60]).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [49]-[60]).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [49]-[60]).

Submitted by Biblioteca Central (biblioteca@unicap.br) on 2018-04-09T17:39:09Z No. of bitstreams: 2 severina_madalena_silva.pdf: 2399597 bytes, checksum: 543c44527c942519e81b9f975e3d043c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-09T17:39:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 severina_madalena_silva.pdf: 2399597 bytes, checksum: 543c44527c942519e81b9f975e3d043c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-31 / The focus of this research was the investigation of the participation of the Catholic Church through the engagement of a group of sisters and postulants of the Congregation of the Benedictines of the Virgin Mary in the Slum Movement active in the mid-70s and 80s of the 20th century in the region Metropolitan of Recife, focusing on the community now known as Planet of the Apes, located in the neighborhood of Jardim São Paulo. It sought to discern the dialogical relationship between the social challenges of that moment and the symbolic contents of the Catholic religion, as interpreted and lived during the episcopate of Dom Helder Pessoa Camara (1964- 1985). The question that was asked was how the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of the Virgin Mary was involved, through non-assistential social actions, in the transformation of an occupation into a community, in the troubled political scenario that was our country. For this, bibliographical research was used, with authors representing Liberation Theology, and the exploitation of documentary and imagery records deposited over the years in the archives of the Community Center of the Planet of the Apes Community. / O foco dessa pesquisa foi a investigação da participação da Igreja Católica, através do engajamento de um grupo de irmãs e postulantes da Congregação das Beneditinas da Virgem Maria, no Movimento de Favelas ativo em meados das décadas de 70 e 80 do século XX, na região metropolitana do Recife, tendo como foco a comunidade hoje conhecida como Planeta dos Macacos, situada no bairro de Jardim São Paulo. Buscou-se discernir a relação dialógica entre os desafios sociais daquele momento e os conteúdos simbólicos da religião católica, tais como interpretados e vividos durante o episcopado de Dom Helder Pessoa Camara (1964- 1985). A pergunta a que se buscou responder foi como a Congregação das Irmãs Beneditinas da Virgem Maria envolveu-se, através de ações sociais não assistencialistas, na transformação de uma ocupação em uma comunidade, no conturbado cenário político em que se encontrava nosso país. Para isso, recorreu-se à pesquisa bibliográfica, com autores representantes da Teologia da Libertação, e à exploração de registros documentais e imagéticos depositados, ao longo desses anos, nos arquivos do Centro Comunitário da Comunidade Planeta dos Macacos.

This multidisciplinary, applied study investigated whether the township church can be repositioned or re-discovered as an asset, which could be used to form strong community structures in local communities and in turn be the foundation for community development and Local Economic Development (LED) for Tshwane (specifically Soshanguve and Hammanskraal (S&H)). The concept of oikos is of central importance in the understanding of the ecological dimension of mission in relation to LED and was used in this thesis defined as oikomissiology which has a Christological basis and broadens the scope of mission by reinterpreting missio Dei and various socio-theological themes in order to realise the vision of collective wellbeing or shalom). Oikomissiology provided a framework / worldview for analysis, description, reflection and planning for action which releases the world, economics, the church and conventional Christian theology / missiology from the traps of anthropocentrism. A narrative approach enabled the “uncovering” of the voices of grassroots communities, giving grassroots participants (i.e. local church ministry representatives) freedom to tell their stories and share their experiences as far as LED is concerned, such that major economic concepts were spoken of in these stories in laymen’s language. The narratives were supplemented by interviews with experienced practitioners and church leaders, which resulted in gaining richer perspectives on LED and on how township congregations that participated in this research are attempting to respond to current socioeconomic crises in Tshwane (S & H). A literature study and a study of the physical space were performed in dialogue with narratives and interview findings. The findings of this applied study established that the township church, in relation to other community organisations and structures, is an asset that could play a number of vital roles towards improving LED in Tshwane (S & H). / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D.Th. (Missiology (Urban ministry))