CHALLENGES OF THE NEW EVANGELIZATION

Abstract

The article proposes a theological–pastoral reflection that helps to discern the prin-cipal challenges that the new evangelization brings to the life of the Church in Chile, specifically in regards to the complex crisis of ecclesial credibility. This exercise of reflection and discernment is carried out in the context of the Continental Mission stimulated by the Fifth Latin American Episcopal Conference in Aparecida (2007). Also, it will be overviewed at the next Bishops’Synod that will be held in Rome (2012). It will focus on the new evangelization purpose for the transmission of the Christian Faith, coinciding with the beginning of the Year of the Faith (2012-2013) and the fif-tieth anniversary of the opening of the II Vatican Council. The text seeks –in the first place– to define the concept of new evangelization; secondly, presents the challenges of the new evangelization in our ecclesial situation, and finally discusses the chal-lenges for the theological reflection and the pastoral action.