«Did you mean that I ought to say: “I’m a priest?”». The industrial apostolate of the Dutch Jesuits in the city of Rotterdam and its suburbs, 1947-1988, I
The Jesuits were the first religious order in the post-war Netherlands to experimentwith a new form of mission in the workplace in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This workhad already seen some success in the 1940s in France, inspired by the nouvelle théologie,but with his Instruction on the Social Apostol...
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| Language: | English |
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
2019
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Gregorianum
Year: 2019, Volume: 100, Issue: 3, Pages: 649-671 |
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Social Work
B Rotterdam B Dutch Jesuits B industrial apostolate B formingindustrial cells (kernvorming) |
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| Summary: | The Jesuits were the first religious order in the post-war Netherlands to experimentwith a new form of mission in the workplace in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This workhad already seen some success in the 1940s in France, inspired by the nouvelle théologie,but with his Instruction on the Social Apostolate (1949) the Jesuit superior-generalstarted to promote ‘social work’ as a typically Jesuit mission. For many workerstraditional parish structures were insufficient, and the influence of communism wasconsidered a major danger. The Dutch Jesuit industrial chaplains used a method ofinculturation in which Catholic and non-Catholic labourers participated in discussiongroups moderated by a Jesuit. This method, called kernvorming, had previously beenused by the Flemish Catholic Workers’ Youth Movement, although Dutch Jesuits introducedit for the first time to the industrial apostolate in the post-war Netherlands. Soon it became the modus operandi of all Dutch chaplains to industry. |
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