Four genres of the original Gospel kerygma present images of Christ in the New Testament, each portraying the face of Jesus in their historical-literary context. John the Baptist teaches about Gods judgement in the presence of the Saviour from Nazareth, who will baptise in the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus preaches the Good News of conversion and forgiveness, and is the one who has come to bring Gods goodness and love, inviting men to a new life and salvation. Peter proclaims the Gospel at Pentecost as the full revelation of Gods power shown by the presence of Jesus risen from the dead. Paul is rejected by the Greek intelligentsia in Athens for teaching these same truths of Jesus death and resurrection. His Gospel message becomes the proclamation of Jesus cross, the loving death of Christ, which is the beginning of the Good News of salvation for the world. For Paul, Christs resurrection stems from his death on the cross, a loving sacrifice. All Christians must meditate on and teach of Christs cross in order to build the Church today just as the first apostles did when bringing the Good News of salvation with its full power to convert the hearts of people.
Ewangelizacja była znana na przestrzeni wieków. Pierwsze posyłanie uczniów ma znamiona głoszenia dobrej nowiny. Liczne dokumenty Kościoła usiłowały zdefiniować dzieło ewangelizacji i nadać mu nowe znaczenie. Pierwszym dokumentem jest dekret o działalności misyjnej Kościoła ad gentes Soboru Watykańskiego II, w którym czytamy, że Chrystus został posłany, „aby ukazywać miłość Bożą i zaszczepiać ją wszystkim ludziom i narodom”81. Misja ad gentes ma na uwadze tych, którzy nie słyszeli o Chrystusie. Posoborowe nauczanie Kościoła coraz częściej wskazuje, że każdy ochrzczony jest wezwany do głoszenia dobrej nowiny. Nowa ewangelizacja to głoszenie orędzia zbawienia na nowe sposoby, to wychodzenie ku współczesnym z nowymi formami i środkami. Jednak najskuteczniejsze jest osobiste świadectwo. Niniejszy artykuł ukazuje zarys, pojęcia i próbę zdefiniowania nowej ewangelizacji na tle dostępnych opracowań, zwrócenie uwagi na dokumenty Kościoła, w których temat nowej ewangelizacji poruszany jest w sposób wieloaspektowy. Następnie wzięci są pod uwagę adresaci Dobrej Nowiny.
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Evangelization was known over centuries and well know in the history. First sending off the apostles, has characteristics of the proclamation of the Good News. Several Church’s documents tried to define the process of evangelization and to give it a new meaning. The first document is the Decree ad gentes on the mission activity of the Church of the Second Vatican Council, in which we read, that Christ was sent “to reveal and to communicate the love of God to all men and nations”82. The mission ad gentes is concerned about those who never heard about Christ. Postsynodal Magisterium of the Church more often indicates that every baptised person is called to proclaim the Good News. The new evangelization means proclamation of the salvation in new way, it means to go out to modern man with modern forms and means of communication. Yet the most effective is one’s personal experience. This article shows an outline, concepts and attempts to define new evangelization in the light of the available materials, with particular attention to the Church’s documents which treat new evangelization in different perspectives. Then taken into account are the recipients of the Good News.
L'autore cercha una risposta approfondita alla domanda: se e come evangelizzare oggi? Il paradigmate biblico, preso dalla storia deuteronomistica, porta un contenuto sempre attuale: la fede della gente marginalizzata vale spesso piu che la forza militare. Non si puo contenere una buona notizia solamente per se stessi. Il profeta Eliseo, confessando con le sue parole e azioni la salvezza divina, sta sempre fino ad oggi come un segno della presenza protettrice di Dio.
The Church must tirelessly seek appropriate means and language to effectively proclaim every person’s universal vocation to salvation. Today’s witnesses to the Gospel should use the potential of old and new means of communication in preaching and ministry. Above all, they should revive in themselves the courage to settle on ‘new areopaguses’. The most important goal of evangelization is to bring every person to an encounter with Christ, who is the main content of the proclaimed Good News. The authors of this monograph did not forget about it. By showing both the enormous possibilities and certain limitations of the new media in proclaiming the Gospel to the world, they first asked themselves whether those countless texts, images and sounds that fill today’s periodicals, radio, television, film truly reflect the face of Christ and let His voice be heard.
Ks. mgr lic. PIOTR SPYRA – absolwent WSD diecezji zamojsko-lubaczowskiej, teologii Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Jana Pawła II w Lublinie oraz kierunku jazz i muzyka estradowa UMCS w Lublinie. Aktualnie doktorant katechetyki KUL oraz student edukacji artystycznej w zakresie sztuki muzycznej UMCS. Związany z Pallotyńską Szkołą Nowej Ewangelizacji w Lublinie i zespołem „Razem za Jezusem”. Muzyk i ewangelizator, współtwórca Exodus Młodych – Spotkania Młodzieży diecezji zamojsko-lubaczowskiej.
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The "kerygma" of Jesus is the essence of his preaching, which became a foundation of christianity. It’s a ‘Good Message’ about God, who loves, and also about who is, and who should be a human being. The" kerygma" is a message with joy, that gives a new life, so that evangelists called them ‘Evangelium’, which means ‘Gospel’. In the history of The Roman Church the kerygmatic teaching was not always in the center of preaching. Therefore the author draws attention to the need of renewal and deepening of these contents. He is analysing the preaching of Jesus and shows a way, which the Church needs to discover these contents in present time, in order to contemporary men could become the participant of this Gospel.
The article presents the “Existential dimension of the Apostle Paul's kerygma”. In the beginning is a quoted definition of a Greek noun kérygma. The theological sense of this word and comes from its verb kerýssein means − to preaching the Good News about Jesus Christ. To announce the Gospel was a particular solicitude of the Apostolic Church, of Saint Paul. The Apostle introduced himself in Romans as: “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God – the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures” (1, 1). The author of the article sets his sights on presenting a live force contained in kerygmat, which preached the Apostle of the Nations, as well as showing the source of the power of the Good News and the necessity of delivering it to all people in the world.
The proclamation of the Good News, which is the primary task of the Church founded by Jesus, should have a paschal character. Celebrated by Jews Passover not only promises, but also prepares the fi nal victory over sin and death, accomplished through Jesus Christ in the Paschal Mystery. Paschal character has therefore the event of Jesus and the Church created as its consequence. Paschal character should also have all offi ces and functions in the Church, used to make present the kingdom of God on earth that can not be limited only to the temporal. Similarly he Kingdom of God can not be completely isolated from temporality. The best explanation of this is the reality of Passover, which combines memory and present, history and the eschatological future. The Church, fi lling the missionary command of Jesus, makes this on the paschal way, giving the paschal character to all of its offi ces and functions. In the same sense, he understands and leads the work of evangelization in every cultural and historical context
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Misterium paschalne Jezusa Chrystusa jest zrealizowaniem starotestamentowych obietnic, które Izrael pielęgnował, świętując Paschę i w ten sposób przygotowując się do zapowiadanego przez Boga ostatecznego zwycięstwa nad grzechem i śmiercią. Dlatego też misterium paschale pozostaje najważniejszą korektą wszystkich urzędów i funkcji w założonym przez Jezusa Kościele, którego podstawowym zadaniem jest głoszenie Dobrej Nowiny, czyli uobecnianie Królestwa Bożego na sposób paschalny, ponieważ tak właśnie czynił Jezus Chrystus i taką perspektywę wyznaczył ludowi Nowego Przymierza.
The proclamation of the Good News, which is the primary task of the Church founded by Jesus, should have a paschal character. Celebrated by Jews Passover not only promises, but also prepares the final victory over sin and death, accomplished through Jesus Christ in the Paschal Mystery. Paschal character has therefore the event of Jesus and the Church created as its consequence. Paschal character should also have all offices and functions in the Church, used to make present the kingdom of God on earth that can not be limited only to the temporal. Similarly he Kingdom of God can not be completely isolated from temporality. The best explanation of this is the reality of Passover, which combines memory and present, history and the eschatological future. The Church, filling the missionary command of Jesus, makes this on the paschal way, giving the paschal character to all of its offices and functions. In the same sense, he understands and leads the work of evangelization in every cultural and historical context.
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Misterium paschalne Jezusa Chrystusa jest zrealizowaniem starotestamentowych obietnic, które Izrael pielęgnował, świętując Paschę i w ten sposób przygotowując się do zapowiadanego przez Boga ostatecznego zwycięstwa nad grzechem i śmiercią. Dlatego też misterium paschale pozostaje najważniejszą korektą wszystkich urzędów i funkcji w założonym przez Jezusa Kościele, którego podstawowym zadaniem jest głoszenie Dobrej Nowiny, czyli uobecnianie Królestwa Bożego na sposób paschalny, ponieważ tak właśnie czynił Jezus Chrystus i taką perspektywę wyznaczył ludowi Nowego Przymierza.
Ewangelizacja to zadanie i misja, które zostały zlecone przez Chrystusa Kościołowi jako instytucji, ale jest to także zadanie każdego członka wspólnoty wierzących. Chrystus wzywa, aby iść z dobrą nowiną wszędzie tam, gdzie jest człowiek. Współczesny człowiek żyje dziś w dwóch światach – tym realnym, ale również w tym cyfrowym. Dlatego ważne jest, aby proces ewangelizacji dokonywał się nie tylko w sposób tradycyjny w świecie realnym, ale również, aby ewangelia była obecna w świecie cyfrowym. Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest ewangelizacja w Internecie, w tym przy użyciu mediów społecznościowych. Celem jest ukazanie, iż obecność Dobrej Nowiny w świecie cyfrowym jest konieczna, ale niesie to ze sobą wiele szans, jak i zagrożeń.
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Evangelization is a task and mission commissioned by Christ to the Church as an institution, but it is also the task of every member of the community of believers. Christ calls us to go with the good news wherever there is a person. Today’s human being lives in two worlds – the real one, but also in the digital one. Therefore, it is important that the process of evangelization takes place not only in a traditional way in the real world, but also that the Gospel is present in the digital world. The subject of this article is the issue of on-line evangelization, including the use of social media. The aim is to show that the presence of the Gospel in the digital world is necessary, but it carries many opportunities and threats.
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