“It Is Inevitable to Speak of Jesus”: Homiletic Inspirations from the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia
“It Is Inevitable to Speak of Jesus”: Homiletic Inspirations from the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at analysing the homiletic directives of the Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia of Pope Francis. This is warranted insofar as this document is an attempt by the Bishop of Rome to find answers to problems and challenges facing the Church in South America, as it is eminently pastoral in character, and as proclaiming the Word of God is one of the chief pastoral activities. The author analyses the thought of Pope Francis in three areas: terminology, theology and praxeology. Such a perspective enables a holistic presentation of the exhortation, and allows to extract from it key directives for the preachers of the Word of God. A deeper study of Querida Amazonia leads to a surprising observation that the scope of the document is much broader that its title might suggest. In this perspective, the Amazon region becomes a symbol of a world with which Church attempts to share the Gospel, and its inhabitants—a symbol of the modern hearers of the Word of God.

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