scholarly journals LA “TRAMA INTERNA” DE EVANGELII GAUDIUM ENSAYO SOBRE LA FUERZA DE LA ESPIRITUALIDADE EVANGELIZADORA

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (130) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Virginia R. Azcuy
Keyword(s):  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Maternal Style ◽  
Principal Points ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

RESUMEN: Este artículo intenta auscultar el entramado de una espiritualidade evangelizadora en el texto de Evangelii gaudium. La reflexión se estructura siguiendo la lectura de algunos ejes principales de los capítulos I, III y V de la exhortación apostólica, dedicados a “la transformación misionera de la Iglesia”, “el anuncio del Evangelio” y los “evangelizadores con espíritu”, respectivamente. Las influencias de Evangelii nuntiandi y la V Conferencia de Aparecida en la exhortación son notables, aunque no menos importante resulta el peculiar carisma espiritual del papa Francisco; en este horizonte, se sitúa el programa de reforma que él nos presenta en el primer capítulo y en el conjunto del texto. Los capítulos III y V, en sus temas principales, ofrecen el marco para pensar la evangelización y la espiritualidad em relación; otros dos temas parecen prioritarios para completar una aproximación fundamental al documento: la “mundanidad espiritual”, como una de las mayores tentaciones mencionadas en el capítulo II y “el lugar privilegiado de los pobres en el Pueblo de Dios”, considerado en el capítulo IV. Así, la “trama interna” de la exhortación, que puede resumirse en la alegría de evangelizar, se va desplegando em las claves de la transformación misionera, la comunidad evangelizadora, el cultivo de la contemplación y el estilo materno-mariano de la acción eclesial.ABSTRACT: This article seeks to perceive the framework of an evangelizing spirituality in the text of Evangelii Gaudium. This reflection is structured according to an interpretation of the principal points of chapters I, III and V of the apostolic exhortation, chapters respectively titled “The Church´s Missionary Transformation,” “The Proclamation of the Gospel” and “Spirit-Filled Evangelizers.” The influences of Evangelii nuntiandi and the V Conference of Aparecida in the exhortation are notable, although no less notable is the particular charisma of Pope Francis; it is in this horizon that the program for reform is located which the Pope presents in the first chapter and in the rest of the text. Chapters III and V, in their principal themes, offer a frame for thinking of the relationship between evangelization and spirituality; two more significant topics that are important to complete a study of the document are the “spiritual worldliness” that is presented as one of the great temptations mentioned in Chapter II and “the special place of the poor in God´s people” treated in Chapter IV. Thus, the “internal plot” of the exhortation, which can be summarized in the phrase “the joy of evangelizing”, is revealed in the keys of missionary transformation, the evangelizing community, the cultivation of contemplation, and a Marian-maternal style of ecclesial action.

scholarly journals Os pobres como boa notícia para a vida da Igreja: as cartas do Papa Francisco para o dia mundial dos pobres | The Poor as Good News to the Life of the Church: Pope Francis’ Letters for the World Day of the Poor

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Rogério L. Zanini
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Good News ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Good Deed ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

O Papa Francisco instituiu, em 2016, o Dia Mundial dos Pobres. Nos três anos seguintes, emitiu, em cada ano, uma carta-mensagem enfatizando a necessidade de a Igreja colocar os pobres, prediletos de Jesus Cristo, no centro de sua missão. Por um lado, o mundo dos pobres se apresenta com uma multiplicidade de expressões: rostos marcados pelo sofrimento, pelas injustiças sociais, pelos bolsões de pobreza próximos de mansões e sendo repelidos por muros e esquemas de alta segurança. Por outro lado, os pobres, sob o olhar da fé que brota do Deus revelado por Jesus Cristo, são para o cristianismo a presença do próprio Deus na história. Assim, os pobres não são apenas destinatários de uma boa ação, de alguns gestos improvisados de caridade, mas, ao contrário, na relação com os pobres se toca com as mãos a carne de Cristo. Este artigo reflete sobre essas questões a partir das cartas do Papa para o Dia Mundial dos Pobres, tendo como chave-interpretativa o conceito de pobreza fruto da Conferência de Medellín (1968), que se dá em uma perspectiva tríade: pobreza como carência, fruto de injustiças; a pobreza evangélica que precisa ser buscada como lembram os profetas e o próprio Jesus de Nazaré; e pobreza como realidade de solidariedade e missão intrínseca da vida da Igreja.   Abstract Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor in 2016. Since then, he wrote, each year, a letter-message emphasizing the need for the Church to place the poor, favorites of Jesus Christ, in the center of her mission. On the one hand, the world of the poor presents itself with a multiplicity of expressions: faces marked by suffering, social injustices, areas blighted by poverty living close to mansions and being repelled by walls and high security schemes. On the other hand, the poor, under the sight of faith, which springs from the God revealed by Jesus Christ, are the presence of God Himself in history. Thereby, the poor are not only recipients of a good deed, some improvised gestures of charity, but, on the contrary, in the relationship with the poor, we touch with our own hands the flesh of Christ. This article reflects on those questions, based on the papal letters for the World Day of the Poor, and taking as a hermeneutical key the concept of poverty established in the Medellín conference (1968) in a triad perspective: poverty as a lack and a fruit of injustice; the evangelical poverty that needs to be pursued as the prophets and Jesus of Nazareth remember; and poverty as a reality of solidarity and an intrinsic mission of the Church's life.

The Unity We Seek

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Bordeianu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Eucharistic Communion ◽  
The Church

Orthodox theologians such as Bulgakov, Florovsky, Afanasiev, Staniloae, and Zizioulas consider eucharistic communion to be the sign of ecclesial unity, but their understandings of the boundaries of the church and unity in love, teaching, episcopacy, and Eucharist (including intercommunion) are varied. This chapter analyses Orthodox understandings of the relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Una Sancta of the creed, considers the ecclesial status of other Christians, and assesses various models of unity, such as ‘all in each place’ (New Delhi, 1961). Unity is conditioned theologically: Christians need to confess the same faith, though uniformity is not the goal. Churches should enjoy unity in love, common service at the altar of the poor (in ‘the liturgy after the liturgy’), synodal decision-making, and communion among local churches represented by their bishops. These forms of unity do not represent successive stages, but they mutually condition each other.

Beyond the Kirk Session: Mixed Economies of Relief

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-235
Author(s):  
John McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Significant Source ◽  
European Research ◽  
Mixed Economy ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Relief System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

While the focus in the previous two sections is on the formal relief system operated by the church in the localities, on the poor who received relief, and on the relationship between them, the final chapter of the book turns to consider the wider context of relief. Recent European research has demonstrated the significance of mixed economies of relief, as well as developing growing attempts to trace the lives and survival strategies of the poor on their own terms, and not merely as recipients of charity. This section applies these two trends to the Scottish experience, and contextualises the church’s relief work through an examination of the relief provided by secular authorities; hospitals; and private individuals; and the informal survival strategies employed by the poor themselves. The chapter argues that the kirk session was at the centre of the mixed economy of relief, and was by far the most significant source of support for early modern Scots in need of assistance, and furthermore that the kirk session was often instrumental in supporting, working with, and developing these other forms of relief (hospitals, testamentary charity and foundations).

scholarly journals LA OPCIÓN TEOLÓGICO-PASTORAL DEL PAPA FRANCISCO

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Rafael Luciani
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
Preferential Option ◽  
The Relationship

Resumen: La Evangelii Gaudium y los discursos ofrecidos durante los viajes apostólicos a Latinoamérica han dejado clara la opción teológico-pastoral del Papa Francisco, cuyo eje se encuentra en torno a la opción preferencial por «una Iglesia pobre que asuma al pueblo-pobre» y, desde ahí, se deje evangelizar reconociendo el lugar teológico que tiene la cultura popular como mediación socioanalítica y de encuentro con el Dios de Jesús. Para comprender esto hay que adentrarse en el debate sociohistórico de la teología latinoamericana de la liberación y en el modo como esta fue recibida en Argentina por medio de la teología del pueblo. Así también, es necesario seguir los debates sobre la relación que ha de existir entre el anuncio del Evangelio, la vida de la Iglesia y la realidad de los pobres, según han sido expuestos desde Medellín hasta Aparecida. En el presente artículo iremos desarrollando estos ejes fundamentales en los que se inspira la opción teológico-pastoral del Papa Francisco y las consecuencias para la credibilidad de la comunidad cristiana en la era globalizada.Abstract: The Evangelii Gaudium and the speeches offered during the Papal Apostolic Journeys to Latin America made more clear the theological and pastoral option of Pope Francis, whose axis is around a preferential option for «a poor Church that assumes the poor-people». A Church that recognizes the theological locus of the popular culture, as a socio-analytic mediation to encounter the God of Jesus. To understand this, it is mandatory to examine the social and historical debates occasioned by Latin American Liberation Theology and the way it was received in Argentina through the so called «Theology of the People». It will also be necessary to follow the discussions on the relationship between the proclamation of the Gospel, the life of the Church and the reality of the poor, as they have been stated from Medellin and San Miguel to Aparecida. In this article we will study those key areas and topics in which Pope Francis has developed his theological-pastoral option and its consequences for the credibility of the Christian community in a globalized era.

scholarly journals Francis and the Pastoral Geopolitics of Peoples and Their Cultures: A Structural Option for the Poor

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Luciani
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Latin American Theology ◽  
Structural Option ◽  
The Church

In response to the phenomenon of globalization, which has resulted in the exclusion of entire peoples and their cultures, Pope Francis has proposed a pastoral geopolitics that is in keeping with the spirit of Vatican II and Latin American theology. Today’s poor are not only the individually poor, but also “poor-peoples” ( pueblos-pobres). Francis’s pastoral geopolitics seeks to identify the new historical processes being formed on the peripheries, such as social movements for democratic and inclusive societies, processes that the Church should encourage by valuing and incarnating itself in poor-peoples’ “cultures.” His structural option for the poor brings together ecclesiology, geopolitics, and evangelization.

Laudato Si

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-55
Author(s):  
William N. Holden ◽  
William O. Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article examines the highly influential Papal encyclical Laudato Si issued by Pope Francis in June 2015. The scientific basis behind climate change is discussed, as are the consequences of climate change, which will be disproportionately borne by the poor countries and poor peoples of the world. The Pope’s prescriptions for coping with climate change are reviewed and the article concludes with a discussion of how Laudato Si exemplifies the simultaneous, and frequently intersecting, themes of protecting the environment and protecting the poor in Catholic social thought. In many ways, Laudato Si is the product of the church of the poor confronting climate change.

The Church of Scotland and the Funeral Industry in Nineteenth-century Edinburgh

2009 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Status ◽  
Industrial Solutions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This article deals with the relationship between the Church of Scotland, the private sector and the local state in the provision of funeral arrangements and burial sites in Edinburgh in the nineteenth century. The first section introduces the status of the Kirk as upholder of tradition and provider of charity in relation to the funeral day. Next, state intervention will be considered, initially in the form of the introduction of the 1832 Anatomy Act, which had a direct bearing upon the status of the poor in Edinburgh and the Kirk's attitudes towards them when they died. This development, it will be argued, intensified working class desire for respectability in death, and increased the financial resources devoted to the funeral of the industrial age. Meanwhile, the challenge of the private cemetery companies during the 1840s further embodied the invasion of the market into the ‘ultimate’ rite of passage. Their example is used to illuminate not only the Kirk's inability to accommodate changing demand, but also the extent to which private enterprise was relied upon to solve municipal problems throughout the nineteenth century in Edinburgh. Finally, the article will explain the eventual demise of the Kirk as a source of burial provision in the capital, at the hands of a state that could no longer count upon pre-industrial solutions for disposal.

scholarly journals On Reading the Bible as Scripture, Encountering the Church

Perichoresis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Steven Nemes
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
God's People ◽  
Preceding Discussion ◽  
Principal Points ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

AbstractAs an exercise in the ‘theology of disclosure’, the present essay proposes a kind of phenomenological analysis of the act of reading the Bible as Scripture with the goal of bringing to light the theoretical commitments which it implicitly demands. This sort of analysis can prove helpful for the continuing disputes among Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox insofar as it is relevant for one of the principal points of controversy between them: namely, the relationship between Scripture, Tradition, and Church as theological authorities. It proceeds by analyzing both the objective and subjective ‘poles’ of the act, and it illuminates the presence of the Church and her Tradition on both sides. The Church—i.e., the community of God’s people—is both that which is immediately encountered in the text, as well as the factor which enables scriptural reading in the first place. The article terminates with an application of the insights of the preceding discussion to the controversy about icons.

scholarly journals Mary, woman of faith and displaced person: insights for Catholic schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Schools ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Preferential Option ◽  
Internally Displaced Person ◽  
The Church

AbstractCatholic schools share in the preferential option for the poor that is an essential part of following Jesus and the mission of the Church. Catholic schools in many parts of the world have an historical and contemporary mission for the care and education of the poor. This article uses key passages from the Gospels of Luke and Matthew to illustrate that Mary can be understood as an exemplar of God’s preferential option for the poor. Mary is presented as a young and poor Jewish woman of faith in the Annunciation and the Magnificat in Luke’s Gospel and is presented as an externally displaced person in flight into Egypt in Matthew’s Gospel. The paper also examines the journey to Bethlehem in Luke’s Gospel as interpreted by Pope Francis. He interprets this as Mary being an internally displaced person. Adopting these distinctive modes of interpretation, Mary can be recognised as a model of the preferential option for the poor for Catholic schools.

scholarly journals Uma Igreja a partir do pobre. Interpelações teológicas e pastorais

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (304) ◽  
pp. 844-860
Author(s):  
Cesar Kuzma
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church

Síntese: O trabalho de pesquisa que aqui apresentamos busca oferecer interpelações teológicas e pastorais daquilo que se pode definir e compreender de uma Igreja que se configura a partir do pobre. Temos por base que esta argumentação não se dá por um viés sociológico, mas teológico, pois vai ao encontro do princípio maior da fé cristã, que é a encarnação: Deus que se faz humano o faz na totalidade e se revela em magnitude na vulnerabilidade de toda a existência, assumindo e vivendo a nossa pobreza. Ele assume toda a nossa condição e esperança, caminhando aos limites da vida e da história. De frente a este fato é que se pode contemplar a amplitude do mistério que em Cristo se revela e de onde nasce a Igreja, de sua pessoa e de sua missão. Este trabalho está dividido em quatro partes, sendo que as duas primeiras têm a intenção de fundamentar a nossa intenção, e as duas últimas num caráter mais conclusivo: na primeira traremos algumas perguntas que nos interpelam na fé, é onde aparecerão as inquietações e as fundamentações do tema que estamos apresentando. Na segunda parte, destacaremos os apontamentos que estão sendo realizados pelo Papa Francisco que, em seus discursos e atitudes tem conclamado a Igreja a ser a casa dos pobres. Já na terceira e na última parte, traremos algumas teses que nos conduzem a refletir sobre o tema proposto e uma breve conclusão, declarando bem-aventurados os que têm fome e sede de justiça.Palavras-chave: Igreja. Pobres. Igreja dos Pobres. Papa Francisco.Abstract: The research which we present here intends to provide theological and pastoral interpellations of what may be defined and understood from a Church that configures itself out of the poor. We believe this argumentation does not take place through a sociological bias, but through a theological one. For it corresponds to the major principle of the Christian faith, which is the incarnation: God who became human performs it in its fullness, and reveals himself mightily in the vulnerability of the entire existence. He lives our poverty and assumes our poverty. He assumes our condition and our hope completely, walking until the limits of life and history. It is through this vision that we can contemplate the breadth of the mystery which in Christ reveals itself and from where the Church was born, from his person and mission. This work is divided into four parts: the first two intend to support our goal, and the last two have a more conclusive character. At the first part, we are going to bring some questions that challenge us in faith; it is where the uneasinesses and the groundings of the issue that we present are going to appear. In the second part, we are going to highlight the indications which Pope Francis has been doing. Through his speeches and attitudes, he has been calling the Church to be the house of the poor. In the third and last part, we are going to bring some arguments that lead us to reflect on the proposed theme and a brief conclusion, declaring blessed those who are hunger and thirst for justice.Keywords: Church. Poor. Church of the Poor. Pope Francis.

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