Resisting Totalitarianism: The Moot and a New Christendom

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 517-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Kurlberg
Keyword(s):  
New Christendom

From the human person to the new Christendom

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-51
Author(s):  
Julio Meinvielle ◽  
Nathaniel Dreyer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
New Christendom

Any Room for Christ in Asia? Statistics and the Location of the Next Christendom

Exchange ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-146
Author(s):  
Emanuel Gerrit Singgih
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
New Christendom

AbstractThe claim of Philip Jenkins that there is now a new Christendom emerging in the Southern Hemisphere, i.e. in Latin America, Africa and Asia is not in line with the conviction of Asian theologians who started precisely from the position of Christians in Asia as a minority. In this paper, the view of three Asian theologians will be contrasted with Jenkins. Even from the list of statistical tables provided by Jenkins it is clear that Asia cannot be included in the next Christendom. However, the clash of civilizations of which Jenkins feared will happen in Asia between Christian fundamentalists and Islamic radicals is not dismissed out of hand, but will be evaluated from the experiences of Christians in Indonesia.

scholarly journals FRANCISCO XAVIER 500 ANOS DE DESAFIO COM O DIÁLOGO INTER-RELIGIOSO

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (107) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Paulo Suess
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Saint Francis ◽  
New Christendom

O artigo aponta para a contradição da missão quinhentista entre a universalidade geográfica e a exclusividade salvífica. O ator social que se move nessa contradição, Francisco Xavier, cujo quinto centenário de nascimento recentemente celebramos, em 1927, junto com Teresinha de Jesus, foi declarado padroeiro das missões católicas. O despojamento de Francisco era radical e prudente. Nunca procurou “curtir” a sua obra, descansar sobre glórias alcançadas. Seu coração estava onde seus pés andavam e seus braços se multiplicavam. A constelação política da Ásia não permitiu a Francisco lançar as raízes de uma nova cristandade. Na Índia e no Japão, onde desenvolveu sua missão ad gentes, o catolicismo tem até hoje um papel, numericamente, marginal. A importância do seu labor missionário não está na quantidade dos batizados, mas na qualidade do seu testemunho. E este testemunho está ainda presente nos kirishitan (cristãos) que, para a surpresa dos missionários do século XIX, por mais de duzentos anos viveram a sua fé no Japão, no martírio e na clandestinidade.ABSTRACT: The article points out the contradiction of 1500s’ mission between the geographic universality and salvific exclusivism. The person who represents this contradiction, Francis Xavier, whom we recently celebrated the birth’s fifth century, Filipiin 1927, with Little Therese of Jesus, was declared the patron saint of Catholic missions. Saint Francis‘ unambitiousness was radical and prudent. He never tried to hold on his work, to rest upon the glories conquered. His heart was where his feet had walked and his arms multiplied. Asia’s political constellation did not allow Saint Francis to establish roots of a new Christendom. In India and Japan, where he developed his mission ad gentes, Catholicism has a numerically insignificant role until our days. The importance of his missionary work does not remain in the number of the baptized, but in the quality of his testimony. And this testimony is still present among kirishitan (Christians) who for more than two hundred years lived their faith in Japan under martyrdom and on clandestinity causing surprise to the nineteen century’s missionaries. 

Modern Catholic Social Thought

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Theology Of Work ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Common ◽  
New Christendom

Jacques Maritain and Marie-Dominique Chenu, O.P., were two Catholic thinkers who had a significant impact on Catholic social teaching. Jacques Maritain proposed the idea of a “New Christendom” in which the “temporal order” and the “spiritual order” were distinguished and the dignity and rights of each person respected. Maritain envisioned an economy in which workers cooperatively owned their own businesses and in which associations of workers collaborated to promote the common good. Marie-Dominique Chenu developed a “theology of work” exploring the human vocation to gain mastery over the earth. He believed modern society was witnessing the “socialization” of work, an increasing sense of collective effort and ownership over the production process. He believed socialization was a manifestation of the Incarnation, the presence of grace in history.

A Salvific Social Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilian Calles Barger
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Catholic Action ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Post War ◽  
New Christendom

This chapter explores how social Christianity took hold in a progressive-era response to the perils of modern life. Catholic Action and Jacques Maritain’s new Christendom in Latin America proposed Christianizing society through institutional reform. By the mid-twentieth century, a languishing new Christendom and the weakening of Catholic cultural hegemony faced an inability to deal with the revolutionary currents running through the continent. Catholic and Protestant thinkers were again coping with explaining how faith-based values made any difference in the workings of society. Richard Shaull introduced the ideas of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Latin American Protestants in responding to unrest, revolutionary movements, and the pressure for inclusion by marginalized groups. New post-war political theologies coming from Europe offered key ideas in dealing with a suffering world. Drawing on these earlier theologies, both Catholic and Protestant liberationists proposed the ultimate secularization of religion.

scholarly journals Jacques Maritain and the Jewish Question: Theology, Identity and Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Ventresca
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Question ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Modern History ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
New Christendom

This article calls for a reconsideration of Jacques Maritain’s philosophical and theological reflections on the ‘Jewish Question’, on anti-Semitism and, more broadly, on Jewish-Christian relations in modern history. The article follows two broad lines of enquiry. First, it sketches a general outline of Maritain’s arguments against Catholic-Christian anti-Semitism, and his proposals for workable solutions to what he identified as the ‘Jewish problem’ in European life. Second, the article considers the practical value of Maritain’s visions of a ‘new Christendom’, that is, of a new political regime based on Gospel-values and thus recognizing the complete civic equality, political and religious freedoms of European Jews. The article concludes that all of Maritain’s thought on the Jewish question must be read through the lens of his Christian eschatological view.

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