VAN GROTE KLOK TOT MILIEU-MISSIE: VOLKSMISSIES EN KATHOLIEKE BEWEGING IN NEDERLAND IN DE 19de EN 20ste EEUW: From coercion to social mission: parish missions in the Dutch Catholic movement in the 19th-20th centuries.
The history of missionary work in Dutch parishes (the so-called "parish missions") in the 19th and 20th centuries can be roughly divided into three stages of development. In both content and form the tone was set in the 19th century by the Redemptorist Bernard Hafkenscheid. With fire-and-b...
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Amsterdam University Press
1993
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Trajecta
Year: 1993, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 273-294 |
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Missionaries
B Netherlands B Catholic Church B Parishes B Christian Missions |
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| Summary: | The history of missionary work in Dutch parishes (the so-called "parish missions") in the 19th and 20th centuries can be roughly divided into three stages of development. In both content and form the tone was set in the 19th century by the Redemptorist Bernard Hafkenscheid. With fire-and-brimstone sermons the missionaries were able to appeal to the individual and collective self-awareness and consciousness of guilt of the Catholics - an important factor in their sociocultural development. Around the turn of the century the trusted method of public denunciation became less effective (it did not reach the entire target group anymore and its results became less enduring) and a need for adjustments in missionary methods arose. It was decided that the devil of modernization was to be exorcised by means of modernized missionary techniques. This chiefly resulted in an intensified approach: organization, propaganda, and particularly, systematic house calls during the so-called parish retreats. That, in its turn, called for a reliable system of pastoral care with all its attendant administrative and bureaucratic requirements. The end of World War II saw a brief revival of the parish missions but this was soon followed by a crisis that called for radical innovations. In 1948 the orders and congregations that were involved in missionary work in the parishes followed the example of Germany and Belgium and established a joint committee aimed at approaching the problems together. The missionaries looked for new ways by exploring the theological and pastoral reforms in France and within this framework the "social environment mission" came to be embraced as a new method. In fact, however, this approach did not add significantly to what had already been attempted with the parish retreats and as a result the social environment mission increasingly became a pastoral anachronism in a modern, multiform society. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
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