THE PRIEST, MINISTER OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN A PROTEAN GENERATION

Abstract

Abstract: Jesus Christ came into our world with a vision, that of spreading the fire of the Kingdom of God. He has entrusted this vision to his followers. Priests, who act in persona Christi, are ministers of this Kingdom. How can they live up to the expectation of their calling in a world characterized by what the psychohistorian Robert Jay Lifton calls the “protean style”? Such is the question to which this article attempts to give an answer, presenting the fact of being a contemplative critic as the ministerial approach that best answers today’s challenges.