RT Article
T1 "Vie with each other in good works": what can a Roman Catholic missionary order learn from entering into closer contact with Muslims?
JF Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
VO 18
IS 2
SP 205
OP 218
A1 Grodź, Stanisław 1964-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/597089647
AB The article deals with concerns and hopes regarding something commonly known as Christian missionary activity, which in Africa has tended to see Muslims as rivals in a race for the souls of the adherents of African indigenous religions. After explaining the meaning of a dialogue-based approach to missionary work, the focus is on matters concerning the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and its new involvement in Chad. Such an analysis is essential if the SVD is going to change the perception of Christian mission from an exercise in religious imperialism to a dialogical way of searching together for the signs of God's presence. The latter will involve closer contact with Muslims and hopefully will incline SVD missionaries to a more thorough adoption and implementation of a dialogical way of carrying out their ministry, one based on profound and conscious respect for others.
K1 Mission/Weltmission
K1 Katholische Kirche
K1 Orden/Kongregationen
K1 Tschad
K1 Dialog
K1 Christentum
K1 Islam
K1 mission/world mission
K1 Catholic Church
K1 orders/congregations
K1 Chad
K1 Dialogue
K1 Christianity