SMALL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES
Dynamic Christianity for Young People
Keywords:
Theology of Communication, God, Jesus, Youth, Christian CommunitiesAbstract
Catholic theology of communication has developed, in the last thirty years, largely from the foundational pastoral document, Communion and Progress (C&P), mandated by the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council in the council document, Inter Mirifica, no 23. The theological orientation of the document C&P is in turn based largely on the central documents of the Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes, Lumen Gentium and Dignitatis Humanae and from the major
encyclicals written at the time of the Second Vatican Council, such as Pacem in Terris and Mater et Magistra. The first eighteen numbers of C&P have outlined the theological guidelines indicating how the Church is to develop communications in its pastoral action.
References
Joseph Palakeel, ed., Towards a Communication Theology, Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2003.
Avery Dulles, “The Church and Communications: Vatican II and Beyond,” in Avery Dulles, ed., The Reshaping of Catholicism, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988.
James O’Halloran, Small Christian Communities, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996, 122.
Bernard J. Lee, The Catholic Experience of Small Christian Communities,
Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2000, 142-143. 7James O’Halloran, Small Christian Communities, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996, 159.
Joseph G. Healey and Jeanne Hinton, ed., Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006, 125
