Miejsce i rola laikatu w ewangelizacji początku lat dziewięćdziesiątych w Polsce

Abstract

he paper entitled “The Place and Role of the Laity in Evangelization in the Early 1990s in Poland” consists of two parts. The first one outlines the problem of placing the laity in the work of evangelization against the background of the councilor conceptual scheme: “holy” “lay” “sanctified” The essential conclusions which result from such an approach to the question are the following: God is being revealed through that which is sanctified and that which is lay. This means that in the work of evangelization there participate both lay people and the hierarchy, though in a different way. Another conclusion is a complementary character of that which is lay and that which is sanctified. This complementariness implies a necessity to collaborate in the work of evangelization. The second part is devoted to the role of the laity in the work of evangelization in contemporary Poland. The role, that is participation and significance of the laity in the work of evan gelization, is depicted against the background of the socio-political and economic changes in Poland. If we take advantage of these changes to intensify the processes of making people atheists, then this role is directed to counteract these processes and first of all it makes people aware that there is a necessity to separate them from the socio-economic changes which are carried out objectively. There are some tools by which the lay people involve in the work of evangelization. They are the following: a special educative programme which deals with these questions, some actions which tend to make people’s attitudes unambiguous (we mean the people who hold significant posts in socio-political life), and counteracting the manipulation of information as well as developing one’s own centres of spreading information.