EVANGELIZATION Sharing the Joy of the Gospel One World Theology (Volume 9) EVANGELIZATION Sharing the Joy of the Gospel 9 Edited by Klaus Krämer and Klaus Vellguth CLARETIAN COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION, INC. EVANGELIZATION Sharing the Joy of the Gospel Contents (One World Theology, Volume 9) Copyright © 2016 by Verlag Herder GmbH, Freiburg im Breisgau Published by Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc. U.P. P.O. Box 4, Diliman 1101 Quezon City, Philippines Preface ......................................................................................... ix Tel.: (02) 921-3984 • Fax: (02) 921-6205 [email protected] www.claretianph.com Epochs of Evangelization Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc. (CCFI) is a pastoral endeavor of the Epochs of Evangelization. ................................................... 3 Claretian Missionaries in the Philippines that brings the Word of God to people from all A short look at a long history walks of life. It aims to promote integral evangelization and renewed spirituality that is geared towards empowerment and total liberation in response to the needs and challenges Michael Sievernich of the Church today. CCFI is a member of Claret Publishing Group, a consortium of the publishing houses of Revisiting Evangelization Work in Colonial Philippines ....... 19 the Claretian Missionaries all over the world: Bangalore, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Chennai, The Ambivalence of Missionary Methods Colombo, Dar es Salaam, Lagos, Macau, Madrid, Manila, Owerry, São Paolo, Varsaw and Daniel Franklin E. Pilario Yaoundè. Ad Gentes in the Context of the ......................................... 39 Epochs of Evangelization Laurenti Magesa Epochs of Evangelization: A Review of the ........................ 53 History of Latin America Manuel Gómez Mendoza Mission as Evangelization Mission as Evangelization, ................................................. 73 or: Everything starts with Jesus Hildegard Wustmans Mission as Evangelization ................................................... 85 Kirsteen Kim Cover design by Jayson Elvin E. Guevara Church Fathers’ vision of Education. .................................. 95 Layout design by Ma. Myreen Q. Gayos Avenue for Evangelization of University Students in Africa Frederic Ntedika Mvumbi All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without written permission from the publisher. ISBN: 978-621-8009-75-2 v vi Evangelization Contents vii Mission as Evangelization: Self-critical Witness and a ....... 115 Conversion as Goal of Christian Mission in Asia ................ 277 Move Out to the Fringes Peter C. Phan Roberto Tomichá Charupá “Entering and Going Forth” ................................................. 291 Impulses of Evangelization Approaches to Christian Evangelization Anne Béatrice Faye Charisms as Signs and Instruments of ............................... 131 Evangelization – Being Church Together Evangelization as Practical Fundamental Theology ............ 303 Klaus Vellguth Thomas Fornet-Ponse Impulses of Evangelization in the Recent Pontificate. ......... 153 Appendix Mary John Mananzan Index of Authors ................................................................... 313 The Church of Africa: African Christianity and the .............. 173 Universal Mission of the Church. Index of Translators ............................................................. 319 Progress or Regression in the Teachings of Paul VI or John Paul II? Nathanaël Yaovi Soédé Pulse and Impulse: The Joy of Being Catholic .................... 189 Juan Richar Villacorta Guzmán Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World The Practice of Mission in Ecumenical Responsibility ......... 201 Klaus Krämer Many Religions Offer Salvation ........................................... 211 Jacob Kavunkal Christian Witness as a Culture of Inviting and Welcoming ... 225 Pius Rutechura The Need to Heed Reality .................................................. 239 Norbert Strotmann Attitudes to Christian Evangelization “Come to me, …” ................................................................. 265 On the Inviting and Mystagogical Nature of Evangelization Today Mariano Delgado Preface To mark the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Ad Gentes, the decree on the mission activity of the Church, at the end of the Second Vatican Council on 8 December 1965 this volume in the One World Theology series is devoted to the subject of evangelization. Authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, approaching the topic from their own particular perspective, examine the different epochs of evangelization, explore the relationship between mission and evangelization, look at the driving forces for evangelization, address Christian witness in a multi-religious world and discuss attitudes to Christian evangelization. Michael Sievernich sets the scene by taking a short look at the long history of evangelization and the various epochs into which it can be divided. He deals with the times and spaces of evangelization, analyses the reaction to it in Late Antiquity and turns his attention to early Christianisation in Europe and Asia before investigating the mediaeval mission in Asia and evangelization in the Early Modern period. He subsequently explains Africa’s response to Christianity and ends with some remarks on the relationship between globalisation and evangelization. He points to a “shift in the balance of power in the Church to the southern hemisphere”, the consequences of which are not yet foreseeable, although “an ever more closely interwoven inter-culturality and an ever more intensive inter-religious dialogue” will gain in significance. In his contribution entitled “Revisiting Evangelization Work in Colonial Philippines” Daniel Franklin E. Pilario examines the beginnings of missionary work under Spanish rule and looks, in particular, at the methods of evangelization employed. In his view, the colonial attempts at evangelization formed part of a special arrangement between politicians and the Church (Patronato Real). Pilario probes into the methods of proclaiming the Gospel to see how ix x Evangelization Preface xi they were exploited by social, political and economic forces at the in overcoming the dichotomy of home and overseas mission. She then time. His study takes due account of the standpoint of Pierre Bourdieu deals with the understanding that the Evangelical movement has of who talks of “double truths” and looks into the connection between evangelization, which is reflected in the 2010 Cape Town Commitment. “structured structures” und “structuring structures”. Moving on from there, she examines the concept of evangelization mapped out in the policy statement entitled Together Towards Life: In “Ad Gentes in the Context of the Epochs of Evangelization” Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes, published in 2013 Laurenti Magesa takes a creation theology approach, saying that by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World “the good news must be advanced for the entire creation by the Council of Churches. Having looked into the development of the Catholic church.” He describes evangelization after Constantine’s conversion understanding of mission in the 20th and 21st centuries, she comes to Christianity and proceeds from there to the evangelization of the to the conclusion that evangelization and mission are synonymous in regions outside Europe from the 15th century onwards. Coming on the discipleship of Jesus. “Mission as evangelization is both a witness, to the present, he points to the missiological tenets formulated by which makes known this person and event, and at the same time a Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium and underlines the importance for continuation of the work of Christ in the same Holy Spirit.” evangelization of the option for the poor. Frederic Ntedika Mvumbi focuses on the relationship between Manuel Gómez Mendoza divides the epochs of evangelization in evangelization and education in Africa and makes it clear from the Latin America into the colonial era, independence and the period of outset that “to educate is to evangelize or to evangelize is to educate.” renewal marked by the impetus of the Second Vatican. He splits the Mvumbi delves into the Church Fathers’ understanding of education epoch of evangelization into a phase of formation and a phase of con- and – at one with Johannes Chrysostomos – points out that education solidation. He comes to the conclusion “that proclamation was subject in Africa could profit from their ideas since “they not only taught solid first to the politics of the Spanish crown, then undergoing processes of knowledge and right skills but also evangelized.” He warns of the risks political and national consolidation until it found its own place, its own of an educational concept that puts great emphasis, sometimes too expression and its own voice in the wake of the impetus from Vatican much, on knowledge and skills. Instead, he advocates an approach II, demonstrating its vitality and its capacity to become a part of the inspired by the Church Fathers: “Education and evangelization should life of the faithful.” concomitantly take place in our universities.” The articles in the second chapter comment on the relationship Roberto Tomichá Charupá examines the relationship between between mission and evangelization. In her contribution on “Mission mission and evangelization from a Latin American vantage point. He as evangelization, or: Everything begins with Jesus” Hildegard surveys the understanding