Preface |
v |
Chapter 1 |
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FROM WESTERN CHURCH TO WORLD CHURCH |
3 |
Church in Six Continents |
3 |
World Church |
4 |
The Church Incarnated in a Variety of Cultures |
6 |
Mission in Six Continents |
7 |
Terminology |
7 |
Preevangelization in the third Church |
8 |
Preevangelization in the Second Church |
10 |
Chapter 2 |
10 |
A Continental CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA |
12 |
a CONTINENT Rich in Resources |
13 |
An Oppressed Continent |
15 |
The Conquest |
15 |
Feudalism |
18 |
National Security |
19 |
A Continental Liberating Itself |
21 |
Chapter 3 |
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A Continental Church In Africa |
28 |
Implications of Three Names |
30 |
Negroes |
30 |
Africans |
33 |
Africans Christians |
35 |
Christian Inculturation in Africa |
39 |
Theology |
39 |
Liturgy |
39 |
Discipline |
40 |
Chapter 4 |
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A Continental Church In Asia |
43 |
The Most Religious Continent |
43 |
The Role of European Arrogance |
45 |
Interreligious Dialogue |
47 |
Asian Religions Revisited |
47 |
The Path of Dialogue |
49 |
One World Religion? |
50 |
Dialogue with the Poor |
53 |
The Task of Christendom |
53 |
Chapter 5 |
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JUSTICE AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY |
57 |
Eurocentric Apologetic History |
58 |
The Classic Model of a Missionary |
58 |
Classic Mission Literature |
59 |
Classic Mission History |
60 |
Passionate, Polarized History |
61 |
Asia |
61 |
Africa |
62 |
Latin Amarica |
63 |
Synthetic, Universalist History |
64 |
Chapter 6 |
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MISSION IN THE SERVICE OF PEACE |
68 |
Theology of Peace |
68 |
Peace as Messianic Promise |
68 |
Mission History as a caricature of Peace-making |
70 |
On the Track of Peace Again |
71 |
Peace and the third World |
73 |
Building a world peace Community |
76 |
Practice of peace |
77 |
The Missionary as messenger of peace |
77 |
The place for missionary proclamation today |
78 |
All Six Continents |
78 |
Annoucing the gospel and changing the World |
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Proclamation and Transformation |
80 |
Conflicts and Nonviolence |
81 |
Dialogical Kerygma |
83 |
A clear stand on the question of armaments |
84 |
Our Task: Follow the way of peace |
86 |
Five levels of Koinonia |
87 |
Chapter 7 |
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HOPE FOR THE WESTERN CHURCH FROM THE THIRD WORLD? |
89 |
Hope in its third world context |
90 |
The Almost Hopeless Situation of the young nations |
91 |
The Almost Hopeless Situation of the young Churches |
91 |
Hoping against hope |
93 |
Grounds for hope in the third world |
94 |
A wider horizon |
94 |
Theological self-understanding |
94 |
Pastoral Self-determination |
96 |
Chapter 8 |
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FRANCIS, BROTHER TO CALL |
101 |
Prophet of Universal Fellowship |
2 |
Prophetic Deeds |
103 |
Underlying Inspiration |
105 |
Franciscans as pioneers of postconciliar fellowship |
106 |
Oikoumene and Protestants |
106 |
Oikoumene and non-christians |
107 |
Oikoumene and the nonreligious world |
108 |
Oikoumene and the poor |
108 |
Franciscans as pioneers of The Postnationalist one world |
109 |
Part Two: PROTOTYPES FOR THE YEAR 2000 |
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INTRODUCTION |
113 |
Chapter |
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NEW PRESENCE OF THE CHURCH |
117 |
Restructuring of the Church as the People of God |
117 |
Restructuring of the Church as the Hierarchy |
120 |
Cardinals |
120 |
Nuncios |
121 |
Bishops |
122 |
Priests |
123 |
Restructuring of church and mission |
125 |
church in Six continents, mission in six continents |
125 |
Opportunities of evangelization |
127 |
A ground swell of Unvelief |
128 |
Chapter 10 |
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New Structure of the church |
131 |
Motives and models |
131 |
Decentralization a postulate |
137 |
Pentarchate |
138 |
Continental Councils |
140 |
The Appoinment of Bishops |
141 |
Kenosis In the Latin church |
142 |
Pluriformity a consequence |
143 |
Basic Premises |
147 |
Areas of Application |
147 |
Rome Measured against the New Understanding of Church |
151 |
The Danger of Schism |
164 |
The Troman Curia |
164 |
An Abiding Papal Function |
166 |
Chapter 11 |
169 |
NEW CHURCH ACTIVITY |
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A widened mission |
173 |
The opening Introduced by Vatican II |
173 |
Chapter 12 |
175 |
NEW CHURCH UNITY |
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Exchange of money |
177 |
Exchange of Peronnel |
177 |
Exchange of Theology |
176 |
Exchange of Pastoral Experience |
181 |
Exchange of Lifestyles |
182 |
PERSPECTIVES ON PASTORAL MINISTRY IN THE FUTURE |
183 |
THE world in the future |
187 |
THE CHURCH in the future |
190 |
NOTES |
198 |