Abstract
Although the era of official colonization of Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Oceania by Western and European powers concluded in the last half of the twentieth century, the church remains mired in this project. Ecclesial discourse, doctrinal and theological, and relationships with indigenous peoples have been shaped by this colonial history. Blessed Pierre Claverie, OP (1938–1996) offers Christians an example of how to live an authentic Christianity in a new postcolonial paradigm. This changed reality––historical, cultural, and political––while extrinsic to the church provides the impetus for a change in the life of the church.
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The beatification is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr4dATWxQrk (accessed February 13, 2020).
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Rahner, Towards, 717.
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Phillip C. Naylor, “Bishop Pierre Claverie and the Risks of Religious Reconciliation,” The Catholic Historical Review, 96, no. 4 (2010): 720–42, here 723.
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Ibid. 725.
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Ibid. 726.
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Naylor, “Bishop Pierre Claverie”, 723.
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Darcie Fontaine, “After the Exodus: Catholics and the Formation of Postcolonial Identity in Algeria,” French Politics, Culture & Society 33, no. 2 (2015): 97–118, here 97.
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Ibid. 102.
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Ibid. 100.
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Ibid. 108.
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Ibid. 110.
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Pierre Claverie, Humanité plurielle (Paris: Cerf, 2008), 137, my translation.
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Ibid. 138.
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Pierre Claverie, “Humanity in the Plural,” in Jean-Jacques Pérennès, A Life Poured Out, trans. Phyllis Jestice and Matthew Sherry (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2007), 258.
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Dias, D.J. (2021). Blessed Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church. In: Chapman, M.D., Latinovic, V. (eds) Changing the Church. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53425-7_18
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