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Evidence from the Past, Pointers to the Present: Towards an Evidence‐Based Approach to Evangelisation With B ernard L onergan

Evidence from the Past, Pointers to the Present: Towards an Evidence‐Based Approach to... Introduction Pointing to Lonergan's intellectual and religious transpositions of Aquinas on reason and grace, this paper suggests how evangelisation encounters a ‘presence’. Historical sketches of Yong Yagong from Korea and Matteo Ricci in China provide contrasting evidence of the Divine desire for all to be saved. The Korean situation outlines what might have been the basis for an intellectual and moral enculturation of Christianity in the Chosun Dynasty, although what actually occurred was seventy years of persecution. The Chinese context suggests evidence for the workings of operative and cooperative grace in the late Ming Dynasty. This paper also expands on Lonergan's early interest in the recapitulation of all things in Christ, envisioning evangelisation further as actions in history which realize our shared unity in Christ . The paper concludes by outlining how societal decline, redemption and progress are three variables for use in analysing how evangelisation is to go forward. The history of the Rites Controversy and its effect on the Church in Korea and China reminds us that forward movement on such a basis is likely to be difficult. 1. Lonergan Lonergan's two major transpositions, one cognitional the other religious, open up a transcultural core in consciousness. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

Evidence from the Past, Pointers to the Present: Towards an Evidence‐Based Approach to Evangelisation With B ernard L onergan

Corbishley, Peter
The Heythrop Journal , Volume 54 (5) – Sep 1, 2013
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Introduction Pointing to Lonergan's intellectual and religious transpositions of Aquinas on reason and grace, this paper suggests how evangelisation encounters a ‘presence’. Historical sketches of Yong Yagong from Korea and Matteo Ricci in China provide contrasting evidence of the Divine desire for all to be saved. The Korean situation outlines what might have been the basis for an intellectual and moral enculturation of Christianity in the Chosun Dynasty, although what actually occurred was seventy years of persecution. The Chinese context suggests evidence for the workings of operative and cooperative grace in the late Ming Dynasty. This paper also expands on Lonergan's early interest in the recapitulation of all things in Christ, envisioning evangelisation further as actions in history which realize our shared unity in Christ . The paper concludes by outlining how societal decline, redemption and progress are three variables for use in analysing how evangelisation is to go forward. The history of the Rites Controversy and its effect on the Church in Korea and China reminds us that forward movement on such a basis is likely to be difficult. 1. Lonergan Lonergan's two major transpositions, one cognitional the other religious, open up a transcultural core in consciousness.

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Published: Sep 1, 2013

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