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MP004E  MISSION DOCUMENTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: FROM "PROBE NOSTIS TO EVANGELII GAUDIUM" (A.A. 2023/2024)

Objectives : The course will explore the contexts and contents of ten landmark magisterial documents on missions and mission. The significance of these documents will be investigated by situating them within the historical contexts of the modern missionary movement, beginning in the nineteenth century until the Second World War; the event of the Second Vatican Council; and the contemporary realities of World Christianity and the post-conciliar Roman Catholic Church. Continuity, change, and development will be noted, particularly with regard to the understanding of the cultural and religious Other and the theology of mission and the missions.
Contents:
The first part of the course will examine key papal documents on missions before the Second Vatican Council: Probe Nostis (1840, Gregory XVI); Sancta Dei Civitas (1880, Leo XIII); Maximum Illud (1919, Benedict XV); Rerum Ecclesiae (1926, Pius XI); Evangelii Praecones (1951) and Fidei Donum (1957, Pius XII); Princeps Pastorum (1959, John XIII). The second section will focus on the decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity of the Second Vatican Council, Ad Gentes (1965). The final section turns to three important post-conciliar papal documents: Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975, Paul VI); Redemptoris Missio (1990, John Paul II); and Evangelii Gaudium (2013, Francis).

Methodology: Each student is expected to read the primary texts, that is, the ten papal or conciliar texts mentioned above. Weekly class time will involve lectures on the historical background and theological/missiological content of the documents, with discussion and reflection on the part of the students.
Means of evaluation:
Final Oral Exam.

Informazioni

  • Semestre: 2° Semestre
  • ECTS: 3

Docenti

DOCENTI IL CORSO NON HA AVUTO LUOGO
DOCENTI IL CORSO NON HA AVUTO LUOGO

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Bibliografia

  • S. Bevans – J. Gros, Evangelization and Religious Freedom: Ad Gentes, Dignitatis Humanae, New York: Paulist Press, 2009; W. Burrows (ed.), Redemption and Dialogue: Reading Redemptoris Missio and Dialogue and Proclamation, New York: Orbis, 1993; B. Lobo – I. Morali – R. Pinto, Maximum Illud: La missione tra storia e attualitภRoma: GBP, 2020; G. Mannion (ed.), Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism: Evangelii Gaudium and the Papal Agenda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.