Evangelizing culture through Christian witness

Abstract

Does our culture need to be evangelized? Is it possible to do this? How do we as a Church and as individuals evangelize our contemporary culture? What are the best ways and means to do this? The aim of this dissertation is to reflect on the relevance and importance of evangelization in this day and age, and the best ways and means to go about it in our post-modern and post-truth world. In order to do this, this research shall refer to Church documents, contemporary writers, theologians and philosophers who have already undertaken the task of trying to read and understand the signs of the times in order to be able to engage fully and effectively with post-modern culture which in so many ways has lost contact with the absolute and eternal. This is why, we as Christians, are called to acquaint or reacquaint it with that which it unconsciously seeks; that which is true, good and beautiful. In this sense, through Christian presence and above all through persuading Christian witness, culture can be made whole again, until it becomes one that reflects God’s very nature.