Mission en transition, Jean Bruls (1911-1982) et le renouvellement de la missiologie catholique
(2023)
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- The Second World War could be considered as a turning point in the history of mission. The era of the "colonial" mission gradually came to an end. For centuries, the mission developed in the wake of colonialism. After World War II, the global colonial constellation came to an (abrupt) end. A financially and morally weakened Europe was no longer able to enforce its claims to its colonies. In the "mission countries", nationalist tendencies developed and colonized peoples gradually regained their autonomy. In this context, the Belgian Catholic missiologist Jean Bruls (1911-1982) provided important incentives to the development of a new non-Western missionary model. Bruls was an important voice in the pre-conciliar missiological debate. He was editor-in-chief of the missiological journal Église Vivante and inspirator of the ‘Centre Église Vivante’, a major center for missiological research in Louvain. Bruls' missionary theology can be considered as a contextualized articulation of the missionary theory of Plantatio Ecclesiae, elaborated in the 1920s by the Louvain missiologist Pierre Charles. In our study, we examine the gradual missiological transition in Bruls' oeuvre from the 1940 to the 1960s. We clarify that Bruls contextualised the doctrine of the Church planting by reformulating it on the basis of the innovative ideas of French (progressive) ecclesiology and theology. We illustrate to what extent Bruls' early missiology anticipated the missionary doctrine of Vatican II and the post-conciliar missiology in general.
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Ooms, T. (2023). Mission en transition, Jean Bruls (1911-1982) et le renouvellement de la missiologie catholique. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/102789