| Preface |
5 |
| Introduction |
11 |
| Chapter 1 The Post-Tridentine Catholic Reformation and the Church's Missions |
15 |
| 1. The Missionary Background of the Tridentine Reformation |
17 |
| 1.1 The Council of Trent |
19 |
| 1.2 The Valladolid Debate |
22 |
| 2. The Modern Mission and its Different Interpretations |
24 |
| 2.1 The Millenarian Interpretation of the 'New World' |
25 |
| 2.2 The Jesuits' Concept of the Misssion |
27 |
| 3, Origin and Tasks of Propaganda Fide |
31 |
| 3.1 The Congregation's Identity: Ingoli's Text-Testimony |
35 |
| 3.2 The Missionary's Spiritual Formation: The "Monita" |
38 |
| 3.3 Texts of Propaganda Fide on the Missionary's Person and Action |
42 |
| 4. Towards and Assessment |
49 |
| chapter 2 Mission at Work: Problems, Choices, and Prospects |
51 |
| 1, Towards a Rebirth of Mission Theology |
53 |
| 1.1 Missio Dei: The Rediscovery of the Theological Basis of the Mission |
53 |
| 1.2 Sociological Openness: The Milieu, the Place for a Colloquium Salutis |
56 |
| 2. The misssion: Heart of Magisterial Teaching |
58 |
| 2,1 The Decree Ad Gentes: Doctrinal principles (2-9) |
60 |
| 2.2 The Magisterial Development of the Teaching about Mission after the Second Vatican Council |
65 |
| 2.2.1 Evangelii Nuntiandi |
66 |
| 2.2.2 Redemptoris Missio |
67 |
| 3. Missio Ecclesiae and the Kingdom of God: A Complex Theoligical Debate |
71 |
| 4. The Council's Reception: A New Starting Point |
75 |
| 5. Theology of Evangelization |
77 |
| 5.1 Christian Faith and Cultures in the Church's Mission |
78 |
| 5.2 The Content of Evangelization |
81 |
| 5.2.1 The Kingdom and the Church |
83 |
| 5.2.2 The Kingdom, the Church, and the History of Humanity |
84 |
| 5.3 Communication of the Gospel nad Transformation of Human History |
87 |
| Chaper 3 Rethinking the Church's Life and Pastoral Care |
93 |
| 1. the Path to a Pastoral and Missionary Conversion of the Church |
95 |
| 2. Discern These Times: "Man Sees the Appearance but the Lord Looks into the Heart" |
98 |
| 2.1 The Metropolitan Areas |
100 |
| 2,2 The Challenge of Migrations |
102 |
| 2.3 The Mass-Media: A Global Technology and the Personal Spaces |
104 |
| 3. Evangelizing in Changing Contexts |
107 |
| 3.1 The Foundation of Every Mission: The Saving Action of Christ |
108 |
| 3.2 Witnessing with Life: First and Fundamental Expression of a Missionary Faith |
110 |
| 4. Inculturation of the Gospel and Evangelization of Cultures |
113 |
| 5. The Mission of the People of God: A Gift Received and Shared |
116 |
| 5.1 Preaching the Gospel by Narration |
117 |
| 6. An Evangelizing Church |
121 |
| chapter 4 Evangelii Gaudium Aturning Point for the Church And its Mission |
125 |
| 1. From the "Theology of the People" to a New Conception of the Mission |
127 |
| 2, Evangelii Gaudium: Pastoral and Missionary Conversion |
136 |
| 3, The Missionary Ecclesiology of Pope Francis |
141 |
| 4. The Communication of the Gospel in the Testimony of Living Faith |
147 |
| 5. The Eucharistic Attaction: Fount of the Mission of the Church |
150 |
| Index of Names |
161 |