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Evangelism in Evangelii Gaudium , The Cape Town Commitment , and Together towards Life
Author(s) -
WährischOblau Claudia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international review of mission
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1758-6631
pISSN - 0020-8582
DOI - 10.1111/irom.12100
Subject(s) - evangelism , gospel , meaning (existential) , spirituality , sociology , sermon , theology , philosophy , epistemology , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
The term “evangelization” has a very broad meaning in Evangelii Gaudium , encompassing everything that is subsumed under “mission” in The Cape Town Commitment and Together towards Life . For those two documents, “evangelism” is just one aspect of mission, namely the verbal communication of the gospel message. In their underlying theological propositions, the three documents are very similar. There is one fundamental difference, though: Evangelii Gaudium focuses on affective transformation, while the other two stress ethical renewal.