Mary, Star of Evangelization

In this book young English theologian Jacob Phillips offers a lens through whom different forms of evanglization take shape. On the one hand, the approach of building on a host culture for evangelization is presented in this book as tilling the soil: cultivating the conditions which might enable an appropriate response from others to the invitation of faith. Yes Mary is also shown here as a figure in whom evangelization takes shape through challenging dominant cultural norms by sowing the seed of authentic Catholic teaching. Through a close reading of the theologies of culture at work in Pedro Arrupe, SJ, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Dorothy Day and John Henry Newman, this book not only outlines the theories behind key strategies for conducting the New Evangelization in considerable depth and detail, but reveals the fundamentally Marian texture which they share, so the hitherto untapped resources of the title of Mary as "Star of the New Evangelization" are brought vividly to light in new and unexpected ways.

Paulist, 2018, ISBN 978-0809153374, 192pp.