Duchowa interpretacja znaków czasu w Kościele. Czas Kościoła wobec znaków czasu
Spiritual interpretation of “signs of times” in the Church or of the Church in relation to “signs of times”

Summary/Abstract: Evangelization, missionary and pastoral activity and inculturation of the Church should be directed towards theological and spiritual analysis in order to discern in the community that a given activity is an interpretation of “signs of times” and complies with the will of God. It is particularly important in overlapping areas of religion and culture as well as of a-religion, where a correct discernment of a “sense of faith” is especially difficult. Very often in the 21st century what we call “culture” has nothing in common with Christian logic and forces people to act in non spiritual terms. There appears then a real threat of forgetting or omitting actions which are understood as spiritual gifts. In the spirit of the renewal of Church’s activities we should adequately apply auxiliary sciences in theological sciences and remember about the limitations of their application. An analysis of the sciences which do not presuppose faith cannot become final for theological sciences and for the pastoral activity of the Church, because the basic premise of theology is a full dependence of the researched reality on God and man who is in relationship with Him. This reality can be interpreted only with spiritual methods.The examples of such activities are presented and discerned by a Polish Divine Word Missionary, Andrzej Pietrzak, through the analysis of cultures evangelization methods and faith inculturation in Latin America. The models applied in those conditions can be a creative help for the Church mission on the old continent. They may contribute to the renewal of conscious and critical search for revelation authentication methods.

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