The Joy of the Gospel
By Paula Gooder
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Paula Gooder
Paula Gooder is one of the UK's leading biblical scholars and is passionate about making the best of that scholarship accessible to a wide audience. She is Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, a Reader and the author of numerous bestselling titles.
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The Joy of the Gospel - Paula Gooder
Contents
Title
Preface The Most Revd Bernard Longley and The Rt Revd Tim Thornton
Introduction
Passing on our faith Bishop Steven Croft
The Joy of the Gospel
Session 1: Joy and the Gospel
The Church’s Missionary Transformation
Session 2: Going Forth
Amid the Crisis of Communal Commitment
Session 3: Saying Yes and Saying No
The Proclamation of the Gospel
Session 4: Proclaiming the Gospel
The Social Dimension of Evangelization
Session 5: Making the Kingdom Present in our World
Spirit-filled Evangelizers
Session 6: Being Filled by the Spirit
Glossary
Copyright
Preface
It was clear from the initial response to The Joy of the Gospel at the English Anglican–Roman Catholic Committee that there was a very significant opportunity here for deepening relationships between Catholics and Anglicans. Although Pope Francis is speaking in this apostolic exhortation in a particular way to his own Church, his profound and inspiring exposition of how a transformative commitment to sharing the gospel springs from our common baptism speaks to all believers. While some of the detail of the text focuses on specific issues in the Roman Catholic Church, much of it is transferable and all churches face parallel challenges in seeking to communicate the joy of the gospel in the world today.
We were therefore delighted when Paula Gooder (a member of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission, ARCIC III) took up an invitation from the Committee to produce a study course that would help Anglicans and Christians of other traditions, as well as Catholics, engage with the rich themes of this text. While a variety of resources quickly became available to support individuals and groups studying The Joy of the Gospel, our impression was that these tended to be aimed at Catholics only. Paula’s work will open up Pope Francis’ words for a whole range of Christians, either to study the document in groups within their own churches or bringing people together from different churches. We hope in particular that this resource will enable Anglicans and Roman Catholics to meet together and reflect on how responding to Pope Francis’ exhortation might encourage them to work together in sharing the gospel with their local communities.
Since its inception in 1970, the English Anglican–Roman Catholic Committee, part of a network of such groups around the world, has regularly given time to reading international documents with a bearing on relations between our churches. The Joy of the Gospel seeks to foster a renewed commitment to the common task of evangelization at every level of church life that could transform those relations profoundly. We are deeply grateful to Paula for providing a resource that will help to realize that potential, and we commend it warmly to our churches.
The Most Revd Bernard Longley
Archbishop of Birmingham
The Rt Revd Tim Thornton
Bishop of Truro
Co-chairs of the English Anglican–Roman Catholic Committee
Introduction
Documents from the Vatican are not often described as exciting. They are regularly important, authoritative, thought provoking, even challenging but very rarely exciting. Since the The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium) was published in 2013 I have lost track of the number of times that people have said to me ‘You really must read this, it is so uplifting/inspiring/exciting’. They were right. The Joy of the Gospel is a rare document: it manages to capture something profound about the joy that comes from proclaiming the gospel and to put it into words in such a way that it is hard not to be infected by this enthusiastic vision for what it means for each one of us as Christians.
The document is an Apostolic Exhortation written to challenge and inspire people rather than to set doctrine. It was the first teaching document that Pope Francis wrote alone (a previous encyclical Lumen Fidei or the Light of Faith he wrote with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI). Like most Apostolic Exhortations The Joy of the Gospel emerged out of a Synod of Bishops. The Synod of Bishops acts as an advisory body to the pope and has both Ordinary General Assemblies (those which meet regularly) and Extraordinary General Assemblies (those which meet occasionally).
The Synod of Bishops was first established at the end of the Second Vatican Council in 1965 by Pope Paul VI to support and advise the pope in his work. Strikingly the very first Apostolic Exhortation was published in 1975 by Pope Paul VI following a Synod of Bishops in 1974 on evangelization and was called Evangelii Nuntiandi (Evangelization in the Modern World); portions of this document were written by a Polish bishop Karol Wojtyla, who later became Pope John Paul II. If you read the full text of The Joy of the Gospel you will be able to see in the footnotes how influential