Missions and human promotion WT-R-MPL

After two thousand years of preaching the Gospel, some still ask: Are the missions among non-Christians still valid? Isn't human progress a sufficient objective? These dramatic questions were also posed by John Paul II in his encyclical Redemptoris missio. After the colonial era, during the great changes in theology, the question of human progress and development came into focus. Despite its apparent obviousness and peculiar innocence, it has proved deceptive to missionary practice in many parts of the world.
Faced with the crisis of mission theology (large multitudes of non-Christians can and must find salvation outside the Church; interreligious dialogue, which excludes conversion, etc.) and political and economic change, missionaries began to wonder if the meaning of their service was not a concrete material aid to the poorest before the ministry of preaching the Gospel? Concern for their liberation from political and economic slavery? Changing an unfair economic and political system? But how do you do that? How to prevent all the poverty of the world? Is it possible? The lecture seeks to outline the answers to the above questions, referring to two basic terms: mission and human promotion.
After two thousand years of preaching the Gospel, some still ask: Are the missions among non-Christians still valid? Isn't human progress a sufficient objective? These dramatic questions were also posed by John Paul II in his encyclical Redemptoris missio. After the colonial era, during the great changes in theology, the question of human progress and development came into focus. Despite its apparent obviousness and peculiar innocence, it has proved deceptive to missionary practice in many parts of the world.
Faced with the crisis of mission theology (large multitudes of non-Christians can and must find salvation outside the Church; interreligious dialogue, which excludes conversion, etc.) and political and economic change, missionaries began to wonder if the meaning of their service was not a concrete material aid to the poorest before the ministry of preaching the Gospel? Concern for their liberation from political and economic slavery? Changing an unfair economic and political system? But how do you do that? How to prevent all the poverty of the world? Is it possible? The lecture seeks to outline the answers to the above questions, referring to two basic terms: mission and human promotion.
After two thousand years of preaching the Gospel, some still ask: Are the missions among non-Christians still valid? Isn't human progress a sufficient objective? These dramatic questions were also posed by John Paul II in his encyclical Redemptoris missio. After the colonial era, during the great changes in theology, the question of human progress and development came into focus. Despite its apparent obviousness and peculiar innocence, it has proved deceptive to missionary practice in many parts of the world.
Faced with the crisis of mission theology (large multitudes of non-Christians can and must find salvation outside the Church; interreligious dialogue, which excludes conversion, etc.) and political and economic change, missionaries began to wonder if the meaning of their service was not a concrete material aid to the poorest before the ministry of preaching the Gospel? Concern for their liberation from political and economic slavery? Changing an unfair economic and political system? But how do you do that? How to prevent all the poverty of the world? Is it possible? The lecture seeks to outline the answers to the above questions, referring to two basic terms: mission and human promotion.

1. Missions and human promotion: explanation of the concept – "Missions"
2. Missions and human promotion – the main sources of the problem and directions of solutions.
3. Human dignity as the theological basis for the Church's commitment to social, economic and political affairs.
4. The diversity of the concept of human promotion and the role of evangelization in its two fundamental stages: negative and positive.
5. Roads and off-road development aid.
6. Liberation theology.
7. Globalisation and the economic and political divide of the north-south world.
8. Tackling hunger.
9. Care for education.
10. Works of Mercy.
11. Defending human life.
12. Building international peace and arms trade.
13. Great migratory movements.
14. AIDS pandemic.
15. Fair distribution of land and concern for ecology.