Santo António de Lisboa nos caminhos da Europa

A formação de Fernando Martins de Bulhões é coetânea de algumas transformações profundas da organização escolar e do sistema de saberes ocorridas sobretudo em Paris. Nesta cidade, como resultado da reunião das escolas de Notre-Dame, S. Vítor e S. Genoveva, principais centros parisienses de saber no século XII, surgiu o Estudo Geral designado “universitas magistrorum et scholarium parisius studentium” a que o rei Filipe Augusto concedeu privilégio, em 1200, subtraindo a universitas, isto é, a corporação de mestres e escolares, à jurisdição ordinária, para a entregar à exclusiva jurisdição do Bispo de Paris e do seu Chanceler.

Rethinking Polycentric Structures in the Postcolonial Church: Dangers of “Drone Missiology” or Afghanization of Christianity

In this brief essay I shall obviously draw from my reflections which I shared over the past three decades and to which I have provided some bibliographical references. It is clear from them that I had several opportunities to share my views beyond the Anglo-Saxon world, and some of them in events organized by K. Koschorke himself in the German academic circles as Munich-Freising Conferences. It is important that we do not get misled by words. We also need clarity of the concepts involved. Koschorke’s emphasis on “ploycentric structures” requires to be discussed and analysed critically to sort out its geographic components and its political-cultural implications, in order to be clear where lie the priorities. Without such exercise we will run the risk of hiding behind the ambiguity of words and concepts. My gut feelings make me believe that “polycentric structures” is just what the West needs in the postcolonial era to replace the control it has lost with decolonization.