New Evangelization and Kerygmatic Announcement

Rev. Xavier Morlans i Molina

Professor at the Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya (Spain)

The kerygmatic announcement or first proclamation of the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, the giver of the Holy Spirit in all situations of life and in every period of humanity, is presented in Evangelii Gaudium not only as the normal entrance door to Christianity and as the permanent foundation of the Christian faith lived through a personal encounter with the risen Jesus, but also as the criterion for the interpretation of dogma and morals. As a result, in order to promote the new evangelization it becomes absolutely necessary to know and practice that proclamation.

Introduction

1. The initiative of God, previous context of evangelizing action

2. The first announcement in relation to the integral process of evangelization

3. Descriptive approximation of the first announcement

4. The two pastoral functions of the first announcement

      4.1. The first announcement as the primary duty of the Church in order to generate faith

      4.2. The first announcement as a major announcement or permanent foundation of faith lived as an encounter with the risen Christ.

5. The two constitutive moments of the first announcement

      5.1. Dialogue on the reasons for believing

      5.2. The announcement of the intervention of God in Jesus Christ and the invitation to meet him personally

      5.3. The articulation between the two constitutive moments of the first announcement

6. The two inseparable effects of the first announcement

      6.1. Conversion to God

      6.2. The social and community dimension of the first announcement

      6.3. The prolongation of the effects of the first proclamation in culture

7. Theological explanation concerning the necessity and effectiveness of the first announcement

      7.1. The dynamism of Christian Revelation

      7.2. The first announcement as an initial case of the sacramentality of the Word

8. The recipients of the first announcement

9. The protagonists of the first announcement

10. Attitudes of the one who evangelizes

11. Modes of the first announcement

12. The continuity of the first announcement: the paths of Christian (re)-initiation for adults