Misje i dialog – soborowy dualizm?
Mission and dialogue – a conciliar dualism?

Summary/Abstract: The author puts forward a premise that there is no contradiction between ”mission” and ”dialogue” in the evangelisation activities of the Church. The Holy Bible, the most important book of the missionary, his vademecum, is the book of dialogue. Dialogue was a key factor for the aggiornamento of the Second Vatican Council, opening up minds and hearts to see valuable things in various worldviews. Mission and dialogue are almost synonymous, since both terms express the one and same mission of the Church: the proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ to all people (see RM 1-2,4,11). The essential meaning and purpose of the doctrine of mission communicates itself in four ways: trinitarian, Christological, pneumatological and ecclesiological. Each of these ways expresses and fulfils mission in its own, proper climate of dialogue. The author stresses the role of dialogue in ”pre-evangelisation”, that is, preparation for the proclamation of the Gospel. Missionaries and advocates of dialogue cannot conceal their motivations in their involvement in the non-Christian sphere. Camouflaged ”mission intentions” generate the dualistic interpretation of those two intertwined activities: mission and dialogue.

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