MISSIONARY. EXISTENTIAL. SPIRITUAL. PERSPECTIVES FOR THE WORK OF THE CHURCH AFTER THE PANDEMIC

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https://doi.org/10.24193/theol.cath.latina.2022.LXVII.1.01

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church, missionary, existential, spiritual, pandemic, Missio Dei, Pope Francis, anthropological, logotherapy and existential analysis.

Abstract

This article explores opportunities for Church action after the pandemic, from three different perspectives: missionary, anthropological and spiritual. The missionary perspective; using an existential-analytical approach, should contribute to the Church becoming less focused on herself and more committed to in its mission for the good life. From an anthropological perspective, Church work is directed to the human being as the image of God and pleads for anthropological aspects to be taken into account in the shaping of Church practice. With the spiritual perspective, the plea is made for Church activity after the pandemic to open up spaces in which human beings, in the experience of their worthiness to love, understand and learn to love themselves without measure and without conditions.

Author Biography

Klara A. CSISZAR, Pastoral Theology at the Catholic Private University Linz. Address: A-4020 Linz, Bethlehemstraße 20, E-mail: k.csiszar@ku-linz.at

Klara A. Csiszar, born 1981 in Satu Mare. Studied Catholic theology and German studies
in Cluj, Romania. Doctorate in Church History at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj
(2009) and Habilitation in Pastoral Theology at the University of Vienna (2015). Since
2019 Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Catholic Private University Linz. Address:
A-4020 Linz, Bethlehemstraße 20, E-mail: k.csiszar@ku-linz.at

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2022-06-30

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CSISZAR, K. A. (2022). MISSIONARY. EXISTENTIAL. SPIRITUAL. PERSPECTIVES FOR THE WORK OF THE CHURCH AFTER THE PANDEMIC. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Catholica Latina, 67(1), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.24193/theol.cath.latina.2022.LXVII.1.01

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