CASTING OUT INTO THE DEEP
Evangelisation of Young People Online
Keywords:
Theology, Communication, Youth EvangelisationAbstract
The purpose of evangelisation is the interior conversion of the personal and collective consciousness of people, the activities in which they engage and the lives and the milieu which are theirs.” This is an excerpt from the magna carta of evangelization, Evangelii Nuntiandi. Pope John Paul II referred to the modern media as the first areopagus of the modern age. More recently, the Lineamenta of the next Synod of Bishops, to be held in October, 2012, in Rome, also points out that, “The means of social communications and the computer revolution represent one of the Church’s great challenges.” The digital culture has become a new forum of public life and social interaction. In this context, regarding young people as ‘cybersouls’, this paper explores some deeper and contemporary possibilities of presenting Jesus Christ online.
References
Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, art. 18.
Nikola Eterović, ‘the Lineamenta of the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops’, 2011, para. IV, 3.
Heidi Campbell, Exploring Religious Community Online, New York: PeterLang, 2005, 58.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter, London: Collins, 1978, 32.
Cfr. Campbell, Exploring Religious Community Online, 57-59.
Christopher F. Mooney, Teilhard de Chardin and the Mystery of Christ, London: Collins, 1964, 47.
Donald Gray, The One and the Many. Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision of Unity, London: Burns and Oates, 1969, 90.
