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Nowa ewangelizacja drogą do odnowy współczesnego świata
A new evangelization as a way to renew the modern world

Author(s): Czesław Parzyszek
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: new evangelization; the modern world; crisis of the truth; crisis of conscience; Sacrum; postmodernism; desacralisation; secularism; revivalism; family; world;

Summary/Abstract: A man is confronted today with many threats to his development, especially the spiritual one. The process of dechristianization, manifesting itself in varied forms, points at the activity of the social agents who work purposefully for the excluding of sacrum from the public life: political, economical and cultural. The objective of such planned process is to dilute the Christian values, propagate the ideology of laicization and build up the secularized society. The author of this article thought it greatly desirable to reflect broadly on the picture of the contemporary world and to unmask its true face which is very secularized. There is also an urgent need to reach the deepest contents of the new evangelization - strongly accentuated by the popes: blessed John Paul II and especially Benedict XVI – and to ask about the possibilities of its realization to renew the contemporary world in which we happen to live, work and develop as Christ’s disciples.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 203-218
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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