In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes and Christopher Zehnder discuss the New Evangelization. Our special guest is Douglas Bushman, S.T.L., Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute (Denver). He serves there as the Pope John Paul II Chair of Theology for the New Evangelization. He is the author of The Theology of Renewal for His Church: The Logic of Vatican II’s Renewal In Paul VI’s Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, and Its Reception In John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Among the questions we will consider are the following. As always, please feel free to suggest your own questions!

1. You teach a course on the theology of the New Evangelization. Do you work from a definition of New Evangelization?

2. How is the New Evangelization related to the Second Vatican

Council?

3. What is the goal—or what are the goals—of the New Evangelization?

4. What does it mean to evangelize cultures?

5. Who is called to participate in the New Evangelization?

6. What do you see as the intellectual task of the New Evangelization? Is there a role for apologetics?

7. What is parrhesia and how might it come into play in the New Evangelization?

8. Does the New Evangelization bring a distinct vision to the Church’s work for social justice?

9. What sort of successes, and perhaps failures, has the New Evangelization experienced?

10. How does the Augustine Institute prepare lay Catholics for joining in the New Evangelization?