Nowa ewangelizacja „ludów pochrześcijańskich”
Evangelisation of the “Post-Christian Societies”

Summary/Abstract: Evangelisation is the first and most important task of the Christian community. It is rooted in the faith in Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. Christ founded the Church that it may carry on his soteriological mission. Therefore, it must continually read the sings of times and adjust means of spreading her faith to the mentality of her contemporaries. Close observation of some of the societies traditionally described as Christian reveals their loss of the living faith and departure from the Gospel, rending them no longer Christian, but rather post-Christian ones. Religious indifference, secularisation and atheism must be challenged by a new evangelisation, new ways of proclaiming the Good News. The topic of the new evangelisation was addressed by the recent popes, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. In their ordinary teaching they stressed the fact the Church is the community of believers who both evangelise others, and are themselves evangelised. In order to bring the baptised back to Christ and rekindle their faith, new methods, language and “pastoral conversions” must be employed. New evangelisation cannot remain just another pastoral slogan. It must become a mission to man and to the world. It must be forged into a new type of the proclamation of salvation within the Church. In this sense, it must turn itself into the “self-evangelisation” of those who believe in Jesus Christ.

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