Being Christian In Europe?

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Booklet

Publication date:

October 2021

In Europe we are witnessing a genuine collapse of the Christian faith. In relatively few decades, a European society with deep Christian cultural roots has become a society in which Christianity is culturally irrelevant. In this booklet the author analyzes this crisis and then explores the conditions that would make a new Christian initiation possible. Such a re-initiation will have to take place from below, from the poor, from the passion of the people, from the great masses of humankind.

Culture & Society

God/Faith

Evangelization/Secularization

Religion & culture

Author

Víctor

Codina

Has a doctorate in theology. Since 1982 he has lived in Bolivia, where he has been working with people's organitzacions and assisting with the formation of lay people in Oruro and Santa Cruz. He is a professor of theology at the Universidad Catòlica Bolivia in Cochabamba and also does pastoral ministry in working-class neighborhoods. His publications for Cristianisme i Justícia include: Lluis Espinal (Cuaderno 64), Acoger o rechazar el clamordel explotado [Accepting or Rejecting the Cry of the Exploited] (Cuaderno 23), and L. Espinal,un catalán mártir de justicia [L. Espinal, a Catalonian Martyr for Justice] (Cuaderno 2). Victor died on 22 May 2023.