The People of God as Agents of Evangelisation

Prof. Tracey Rowland

Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne (Australia)

Beginning with Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity as a religious ideology based on the resentment of the weak, Professor Rowland explores the various spiritual pathologies identified as barriers to the work of evangelisation in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.

Following an analysis of the barriers, the paper presents a positive account of the ‘Humanism of the Incarnation’ as the art-work of grace and the objective of the People of God as Agents of Evangelisation.