The Evangelization Equation: The Who, What, and How
Overview
The Evangelization Equation: The Who, What, and How is a crash course in the “New Evangelization” to which both Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have called all Catholics. Father Wehner explores the challenges and the opportunities in American culture for spreading the Gospel. While giving a full presentation of the cultural, historical, pastoral, and theological background of his topic, he also communicates the very practical implications of the call.
Father Wehner, who made the “New Evangelization” his area of specialization at the Pontifical Gregorian University, has been educating seminarians since 2002. He also has pastoral experience in a large and vibrant parish and has worked with the Catholic Men’s Fellowship in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.
The reader, upon finishing this book, will be equipped with the intellectual and practical tools to move forward as an effective evangelist.
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- Explores the new evangelization
- Presents the context surrounding the call to evangelization
- Offers practical guidance to the evangelist
- The Reign of Reason and the Advent of the Absurd: From Modernity to the Post-Modern
- Foundations and Cornerstones: The Essentials of Evangelization
- The Here and the Now: The Essentials of the New Evangelization
- The Means and the Method: Hinges of the New Evangelization
- From Theory to Reality: The New Evangelization in Practice
- From Planning to Doing: Taking the New Evangelization to the Streets
- The Missing Variable and the Sum Total
Top Highlights
“Evangelization is as much about nourishing and forming faith as it is about awakening faith.” (Page xviii)
“The soteriological foundation of evangelization acknowledges that the Holy Spirit is the primary agent of evangelization” (Page 26)
“for evangelization to be successful there are two hinges on which any process moves: inculturation and catechesis” (Page 65)
“Pope Paul VI in Evangelii Nuntiandi remain with the new evangelization: God wills that all men be saved; salvation comes through Christ, who is God made man; the Church is the means through which men enter into the saving mysteries of Christ; life with Christ is the destiny for which all men long and for which all men were made.” (Page 50)
“Man exists in order to be evangelized. Man exists so that he might hear the Gospel, discover God, and fall in love. We exist because of God’s love and for God’s love.” (Page 43)
If you are looking for a watered-down definition of evangelization that refuses to speak the truth that within the Catholic Church is the fullness of Christ, then don’t pick up this book. But if you want a real understanding of the mandate of the Gospels to convert our culture and bring souls to Christ, then this is the book for you.
—Robert P. Lockwood, former president, Our Sunday Visitor
Fr. Wehner’s research gives a broad explanation of the new evangelization that will prepare and challenge the reader to become a major player in evangelization.
—Most Reverend Robert J. Baker, bishop, Birmingham, Alabama
Fr. Werner has written a very readable and yet comprehensive explanation of what the “new evangelization” is and, just as importantly, what it is not. The Evangelization Equation provides helpful clarification and practical considerations for all concerned with answering the Church’s call for a new evangelization.
—Most Reverend Paul J. Bradley, bishop, Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Title: The Evangelization Equation: The Who, What, and How
- Author: James A. Wehner
- Publisher: Emmaus Road
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 152
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › United States; Evangelistic work › United States; Evangelistic work › Catholic Church
- Resource ID: LLS:VNGLZTNQTNWHWHT
- Resource Type: Monograph
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