I would argue for two axioms. First, Christian mission induces migration, and, conversely, migration fulfills Christian mission. Second, there is a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship between Christian mission and migration.
Peter C. Phan
Peter C. Phan is the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought in the department of theology and religious studies at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. This essay was originally composed as a contribution to Georgetown University's project on the Culture of Encounter and the Global Agenda.
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Why Pope Francis sees the good Samaritan as the parable for our times
Pope Francis presents the good Samaritan as the prototype of the fraternity and social friendship that creates the “culture of encounter” and builds bridges of love among all.
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The Practice of Penance
Peter C. Phan reviews “Sin in the Sixties: Catholics and Confessions 1955-1975” by Maria C. Morrow.
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The Eternal Question
‘The Ransom of the Soul,’ by Peter Brown and ‘Heaven Can Wait,’ by Diana Walsh Pasulka
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Faith in Flux
A new work by a much celebrated Czech theologian and public intellectual
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The Next Christianity
In his book The Next Christendom (2002) and his recent article “The Next Christianity” (Atlantic Monthly, October 2002), Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, argues that the current crisis in the Catholic Church, broug
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Inclusive Pluralism
Very likely the first question that will pop into the minds of readers of this latest and third book by Jacques Dupuis on the theology of religions is this How well has its author answered the charges by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that his previous work Toward a Christian Theo
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Escape to Freedom: Twenty-Five Years After the Fall of South Vietnam
A quarter of a century may be just a dot in a nation’s history or a mere blip in the history of the world, but for over one million Vietnamese immigrants who have made their home in the United States in the aftermath of the Communists’ victory over what was known as the Republic of Vietn
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Reconstructing Christian Revelation
Though the title might lead one to dismiss this book as just another in the swarm of apocalyptic writings like those by Tim LaHaye Jerry Falwell and Grant R Jeffrey preying on public anxiety over the end of the world and predicting Armageddon and cosmic meltdown this work by a professor of polit