Objective/Context: The initial decades following the Spanish foundation of Quito were pivotal for shaping its peri-urban spaces. Between 1534 and 1575, three colonization strategies were crucial for producing the space surrounding the colonial city of Quito: Hispanic municipal governance, asymmetrical alliances with indigenous authorities and evang...
In 1622, when Gregory XV founded Propaganda Fide, there were seven dioceses in Asia under the royal pa-tronage of Portugal. All of them had bishops, with the exception of Goa, whose Archbishop had died months before the bullInscrutabili Divinae Providentiaearcano was issued, whichcanonically instituted the new Roman congregation. This article offer...
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Entre los académicos ha existido un debate sobre el origen del guatemalteco el Baile de la Conquista, con posturas que fechan la composición del drama ya sea para siglo XVI como parte del teatro evangelizador, o bien como ejemplar del romanticismo nacionalista del siglo XIX. Proponemos que el Baile de la Conquista fue representado únicamente desde ...
The historical encounter between Christian faith and African Traditional Religion has given birth to different attitudes, beginning with that of rejection on the part of the first bearers of Christianity and their allies to the attitude of tolerance and acceptance that led to the need for a thorough and deeper understanding of both African Traditio...
This article collects specific results regarding the role of evangelization and the formation of ex-cellent human beings, authentic Christians and true servants of society through the transversal educational proposal Proyecto de Vida-SEAB, implemented in all the institutions of the Educa-tional System of the Archdiocese of Bogota. These findings ar...
A few decades ago, an attempt was made to relegate the piety of the people out of ignorance, contempt or rejection. To accompany the simple faith in truth, with pastoral charity, and to evangelize it with very concrete proposals and orientations. Gaudium et Spes and Lumen Gentium opened channels for theology and pastoral care. Evangelii Nuntiandi a...
Au cours de son histoire, le Congo français a connu trois étapes dans son évangélisation. Mais la plus décisive demeure celle amorcée dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle par les spiritains sous l'égide de la Sacrée Congrégation de La Propagation de la Foi. Contrairement à leurs prédécesseurs qui ont évangélisé ce territoire en ne comptant que su...
In this research we intend to capture the role that Christian preaching played, throughout the patristic period, in the spread of the Gospel. In the continuation of the evangelization carried out by the Apostles, the Fathers of the Church assumed the inheritance of the missionary imperative given by Christ: the catechumenate crystallizes as an eccl...
This article intends to discuss the Baptist purposes and methods to conversion and evangelization of Brazilian indigenous people for the period thereafter the 1920s and 1930s, analyzing the scope of actions of Brazilian Mission Board of Brazilian Baptist Convention, responsible for centralizing the missionary activity in the range of the First Repu...
