{"title":"Anthony De Mello - A Missionary of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Ene Ionel","doi":"10.26417/446zzp69","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We live in a troubled, restless, confused world. The old landmarks have disappeared, are being challenged or replaced with all sorts of surrogates. There is talk of horizontalizing values, which is nothing more than relativizing and replacing them. What has shaped humanity for centuries and brought civilization, known as Europeanism, is increasingly criticized, judged, removed. Christianity is no longer lived, as the most wonderful way of life, as the most wonderful invitation to a loving partnership with God, but as a system of outdated values, because people perceive it according to the manifestations of some or others of those who say Christians and not after what he is. In this world, a missionary, like Anthony de Mello, seems outdated, yet his deeds and some of his teachings retain the beauty and depth that we discover in the ranks of Holy Scripture or in the writings of the Holy Fathers. Of course, reading his entire work, anyone will be able to say that Tony de Mello, as his friends called him, is syncretistic, heretical, and so on. But, remembering the exhortations given to the young people by St. Basil the Great, we can only collect the nectar of the flowers, even if some of them are of thistles or thistles. Far from capturing the whole spiritual charge of Father Anthony de Mello's work, our lines will be an invitation to read.","PeriodicalId":52999,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Economics Law and Social Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Journal of Economics Law and Social Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.26417/446zzp69","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract We live in a troubled, restless, confused world. The old landmarks have disappeared, are being challenged or replaced with all sorts of surrogates. There is talk of horizontalizing values, which is nothing more than relativizing and replacing them. What has shaped humanity for centuries and brought civilization, known as Europeanism, is increasingly criticized, judged, removed. Christianity is no longer lived, as the most wonderful way of life, as the most wonderful invitation to a loving partnership with God, but as a system of outdated values, because people perceive it according to the manifestations of some or others of those who say Christians and not after what he is. In this world, a missionary, like Anthony de Mello, seems outdated, yet his deeds and some of his teachings retain the beauty and depth that we discover in the ranks of Holy Scripture or in the writings of the Holy Fathers. Of course, reading his entire work, anyone will be able to say that Tony de Mello, as his friends called him, is syncretistic, heretical, and so on. But, remembering the exhortations given to the young people by St. Basil the Great, we can only collect the nectar of the flowers, even if some of them are of thistles or thistles. Far from capturing the whole spiritual charge of Father Anthony de Mello's work, our lines will be an invitation to read.
我们生活在一个不安、不安、困惑的世界。旧的地标已经消失,受到挑战,或者被各种各样的替代品所取代。有一种说法是价值水平化,这只不过是相对化和取代它们。几个世纪以来塑造了人类并带来文明的东西,即所谓的欧洲主义,正日益受到批评、评判和移除。基督教不再是最美妙的生活方式,不再是与上帝建立爱的伙伴关系的最美妙的邀请,而是作为一种过时的价值观体系,因为人们根据一些或其他自称为基督徒的人的表现来感知它,而不是根据他是什么。在这个世界上,像安东尼·德梅洛这样的传教士似乎已经过时了,但他的行为和他的一些教导保留了我们在圣经或教父的著作中发现的美丽和深度。当然,阅读他的全部作品,任何人都可以说托尼·德·梅洛(Tony de Mello)——他的朋友这样称呼他——是一个融合主义者、异端分子等等。但是,记住圣巴西尔大帝对年轻人的劝诫,我们只能采集花蜜,即使其中一些是蓟或蓟。远没有捕捉到安东尼·德梅洛神父作品的全部精神负担,我们的台词将是一个阅读邀请。