The Memory of Self-Donation: Meeting the Challenges of Mission

Authors

Bede Uche Ukwuije

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Contents

Acknowledgments (p.7)

Preface (p.8)

Foreword (p.10)

Introduction (p.13)

I. Missionary in France (p.19)

• My Intercultural Conversion (p.20)
• Entering the French Culture (p.22)
• Discoveries (p.24)
• Rethinking Our Identity (p.28)

II. Immigration and Mission (p.34)

• African Migrants’ Pastoral: Communities on Mission (p.35)
• Immigration and Ecclesial Identity (p.39)
• The Migrants’ Church as Family of God (p.41)

III. Memory of Self-Donation: the Early Missionaries to Africa (p.44)

• Total Self-Donation (p.44)
• A New Vision of the Past (p.45)
• Towards a New Missionary Fervour (p.48)

IV. God’s Self-Donation as Source of Mission (p.50)

• God, the Father Who Loves to the Extreme (p.50)
• Jesus, the Son Who Loves Like the Father (p.52)
• The Spirit, the Gift of the Father and Son (p.53)

V. Paul: Self-Donation and the Truth of the Gospel (p.56)

• Touched by Grace (p.56)
• The Apostolic Existence (p.57)

VI. Francis Libermann: Missionary Practice and Self-Donation (p.59)

• From Humiliation to Humility (p.59)
• Missionary Practice as Kenosis (p.60)

VII. Claude Poullart des Places: Simplicity and Self-Donation (p.63)

• Priests for the Service of the Poor (p.64)
• Constantly Searching for the Will of God (p.67)

VIII. Mission as Witnessing to God’s Self-donation (p.70)

• The Responsibility of the Witness (p.71)
• The Condition of the Witness: Self-Effacement (p.74)

Epilogue (p.76)

Bibliography (p.78)

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

Paulines Publications Africa

Disciplines

Catholic Studies | Religion

Recommended Citation

Ukwuije, B. (2010). The Memory of Self-Donation: Meeting the Challenges of Mission. Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/spiritan-books/17