| 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 |