Crkva u Bosni i Hercegovini pred izazovima društvenih promjena
The Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina facing the challenge of social change

Summary/Abstract: Being in the world but not of the world has always represented a challenge for the Church as it strives to study the world, to reflect on its realities on the basis of Revelation, tradition and theology, and to search for ways of responding adequately to these challenges. The Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina has often lived in turbulent social circumstances and has reacted to these circumstances in various ways. This article focuses on contemporary social challenges that require an appropriate pastoral response from the Church. Before examining these challenges and responses, the author establishes a theoretical framework for the analysis, presenting various models of interpretation of social change and a typology of strategic pastoral responses by the Church. Since the contemporary realities of Bosnia and Herzegovina still reflect the influence of the Communist regime, the investigation begins with the challenges that Communism posed to the Church, and the pastoral responses to these challenges, before concluding with an analysis of the strategic responses of the Church. The same procedure is developed in the post-Communist period, taking into the account specific differences between the pre-war era, the period of the war and the post-war period.

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