The Good News and
Our Proclamation of the Faith

This work is an abbridgement and translation of Fr. Josef Jungmann's Die Frohbotschaft und Unsere Glaubensverkündigung which he wrote in 1936. The translation was done by the late William A. Huesmann, S.J. who was, at the time, Dean and Seminary Professor at Alma College in Los Gatos, CA. This work was originally published by W. H. Sadlier, Inc. in 1962 under the title: The Good News Yesterday and Today.

PART ONE

THE SITUATION

1. The Message in Our Time
2. Christocentrism: Objective and Subjective

PART TWO

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

3. Proclamation of the Faith by the Early Church
4. Proclamation of the Faith and Theological Science
5. The Message About Christ and the Christological Struggles
6. Changes in the Message of Grace
7. Changes in Prayer Life

PART THREE

OUR TASK

8. Trends and Beginnings
9. The Sermon as a Guide Through the Church Year
10. Catechetical Instruction
11. Divine Worship
12. Guiding Principles for Devotions
13. The Christian Design of Life

PART FOUR

FOUR APPRAISALS

1. The Place of The Good News in Modern Catechetics,
   by Johannes Hofinger, S.J.
2. The Good News and the Liturgical Renewal,
   by Paul Brunner, S.J.
3. The Good News and the Renewal of Theology,
   by Dominico Grasso, S.J.
4. The Good News and the Catechetical Scene in the United States,
   by Rev. Gerald S. Sloyan

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