Prolegomena of surpassing religious missionarism
Prolegomena of surpassing religious missionarism

Summary/Abstract: Globalisation of the world is one of the basic trends at the outset of the third millennium. The world is becoming closer and closer, more connected and united. Such a connected world can function solely in the pluralism as the basic way of survival. Otherwise, out of the pluralism a variety of civilisations, languages, cultures, religions, and interests can endanger the survival of that fatally connected world. The secular social and technological metamorphosis emancipated from the influence of the religions prepared the globalisation of the world. It still has the initiative in the process of connecting the world. The great, especially traditional religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have not even approached the models of participating in the basic process of connection of our world. It is best seen in the unification of Europe in which religions have not built appropriate ecumenical standards and visions for adequate serving that process. Being religiously shut up in the historical heritage of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Islam is the main hindrance to bringing these three civilisations together. Therefore the main task of these three religions nowadays is to break through the historical models and to build the appropriate models for serving contemporary man who feels like a citizen of the world and who lives together with the great number of different experiences. Because of the lack of the participation in dialogue, ecumenism, and education for the plural society, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam stand bad witnesses for modern man and in that way hinder their own mission of directing man to transcendence, to God. Namely, many opposed and confronted religious experiences cause scepticism in contemporary man about faith and religion in general so that the insufficient religious illumination and inspiration are the basic spiritual deficiencies of the contemporary world, which creates criticism and scepticism about the meaning of that civilization, especially in the West.

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