“WHAT MODEL OF MISSION FOR TODAY?”
TEXAS MISSION CONFERENCE
Fort Worth, TX – January 27-29, 2006
Opening address: “Models of Mission
Theology:
Three Models for the 21st Century”
Roger Schroeder, S.V.D.
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I. Certainty: Mission Theology before Vatican II
a. Mission as Salvation of Souls
b. Mission as Expansion of the Church
II. Changes in the World and Church
III. Ferment: The Second Vatican Council
a. Mission as Participation in the Mission of the Triune God: Ad Gentes
b. God’s Mission (Missio Dei) and the Church
c. New Way of Looking at the World
d. Implications
e. New Way of Looking at Other Religions
IV. Crisis: Decade after the Council
V. Rebirth: Evangelii Nuntiandi and Beyond
a. Mission as Liberating Service of the Reign of God: Evangelii Nuntiandi
b. Reign of God
c. Jesus’ Mission Shared by the Church
d. Implications
VI. Further Developments: Response to Two Previous
Models
a. Mission as Proclamation of Jesus Christ as Universal Savior: Redemptoris
Missio
b. Emphasis
c. Sophisticated Model
d. Implications
e. Horizons of Mission
VII. Conclusion: God’s Spirit Leading
Us in Mission
Saturday address: “Prophetic
Dialogue:
A Mission Theology for Today”
Roger Schroeder, S.V.D.
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I. A New Synthesis: Mission as Prophetic Dialogue
a. Dialogue
b. Prophetic
II. Six Components of Mission
a. Witness and Proclamation
i. Witness
ii. Proclamation
b. Liturgy, Prayer, and Contemplation
i. Liturgy
ii. Prayer
iii. Contemplation
c. Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation
i. Justice
ii. Peace
iii. Integrity of Creation
d. Interreligious/Secular Dialogue
i. Why Dialogue
ii. Forms of Dialogue
e. Inculturation
i. Theology of Inculturation
ii. Spirituality of Inculturation
iii. Inculturation as Prophetic Dialogue
f. Reconciliation
i. Types of Reconciliation
ii. More Spirituality than Strategy
III. Conclusion
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More Information: Contact Awanda Whitworth, Secretary,
Texas Mission Council, 713-688-1060)
