Strategie misyjnego działania Kościoła w Ameryce Łacińskiej
Strategies for missionary activity of the Church in Latin America

Summary/Abstract: In her missionary (or evangelizing) work, the Church uses strategies which involves rational and functional activities, corresponding to a given historical and social context, thereby enabling the appropriate transmission of the Gospel. In South America, there are three basic strategies which are visible in the post-conciliar Church’s missionary activity: the inculturation of the Gospel, the liberation as a consequence of the option for the poor and the development of ecclesial structures. The strategy of inculturation is based on the recognition of the dignity, identity, integrity and richness of indigenous cultures. The missionary strategy of liberation of man from the slavery of sin and material misery leads to the fulfillment of the option for the poor, clearly rooted in the Gospel. The missionary strategy what consists insupporting the development of local Churches and in creating new ecclesiastical structures, appreciates the evangelizing activity of the parish and of the small ecclesial communities thatform their members in the spirit of the Gospel and in that same spirit, serve the transformation of human reality in the civilization of love. All of these strategies used in the missionary activity of the South American Church penetrate and complement each other, calling people to conversion and leading to the encounter with Christ, through whom a new humanity flowers” (cf. VD 93).

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