Einde Van Een Missie: De Utrechtse Stadsmissie Van 1959 En De Demobilisatie Van De Nederlandse Katholieken: End of a mission: the 1959 Utrecht city mission and the demobilization of Dutch Catholics.
The so-called parish or people's mission was an important instrument in the mobilization of Dutch Catholics from the middle of the 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century, constant innovation in the people's mission was needed to achieve the original goals: a thorough moderniza...
| Published in: | Trajecta |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
1995
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Trajecta
Year: 1995, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-74 |
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Utrecht (Netherlands)
B Missionaries B Catholic Church B Christian Missions |
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| Summary: | The so-called parish or people's mission was an important instrument in the mobilization of Dutch Catholics from the middle of the 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century, constant innovation in the people's mission was needed to achieve the original goals: a thorough modernization of the sense of belief in the parishes and the retrieval of fully or partly lost parishioners. After World War II the need for a different pastoral approach was increasingly felt. In several important respects the dean of Utrecht, in consultation with his pastors, aimed at a fundamental change in the town mission planned for the autumn of 1959. In the preparations, laymen were employed from the start. Also, a new - theologically sound - form of preaching was to be aimed at. Peace and grace were to be the themes of the town mission, rather than the traditional emphasis on hell and damnation. Serious attempts were made to place the town mission in an ecumenical perspective. In spite of all these good intentions and thorough preparations, the Utrecht mission did not bring about the intended changes, neither in the local church nor in the missionary methods. For a group of faithful Catholics the mission had perhaps provided spiritual "refreshment," but it did not reach the ever-growing group of half- and ex-Catholics. In practice it appears that the Utrecht mission proved to be the end rather than a new start in the history of the people's mission in the Netherlands. Utrecht was the site of the last large-scale people's mission in the Netherlands: classic in organization and modern in content and form. Both elements proved to be of no avail. The days of the people's missions in the Netherlands were over; earlier mobilizations of Dutch Catholics now gave way to a period of demobilization. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
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