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.

Father Dietz, the Catholic Church and the 1913 Michigan Copper Strike

Labor Historian Marc Karson has singled out “labor priest” Peter E. Dietz as one of the strongest proponents for the active implementation of the Catholic Church���s 1890’s labor encyclical Rerum Novarum in the daily practice of American Catholics. Biographer Sister Mary Harrita Fox pointed out that in his work, Dietz “was particularly concerned over the role of the church in the copper strike in Upper Michigan.” This “particular concern” should be noted since the 1913 strike was one of the only disputes where Dietz went out of his way to visit and become actively involved. Why the keen interest? This presentation will review the impetus for the huge effort which brought Peter E. Dietz to the Copper Country and solely to that dispute alone, the resulting visit and report that he made concerning the strike, the important role he believed this visit and stance in the Copper Strike had in the future of the Church���s relationship to the US labor movement. The presentation will look at both what Dietz thought would occur as a result of his 1913 trip to the Keweenaw and what actually happened in this pivotal pre-World War One era event. The paper will put Father Peter E. Dietz and the Catholic Church into the larger frame of how religion has been viewed within the history of the Strike.

England and the Catholic Church under Queen Elizabeth;

"Chronological list of unpublished documents": p. [533]-543.

The Catholic church and the American Negro;

Mode of access: Internet.

Inventory of the church archives of Vermont.

Reproduced from type-written copy.

The Offices of St. Wilfrid according to the use of the Church of Ripon : from a Psalter /

Mode of access: Internet.

Summer holidays among the glories of northern France, her cathedrals and churches /

Mode of access: Internet.

The basis of Anglican fellowship in faith and organization : an open letter to the clergy of the diocese of Oxford /

Includes bibliographical references.

A candid address to the Episcopalians of Pennsylvania, in relation to the present situation of the affairs of the diocese.

Attributed to W.H. DeLancey, who was associated with the Episcopal Church in Phildelphia from 1822 to 1839, by the Library Company of Philadelphia in the National Union Catalog, and by Richard H. Shoemaker in A checklist of American imprints for 1827.

Delineation of Roman Catholicism : drawn from the authentic and acknowledged standards of the Church of Rome ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Constitution; with canons of church as adopted, Oct. 2, 1834, and amended Oct. 4, 1839, Oct. 1, 1841, and Sept. 30, 1842.

Mode of access: Internet.

Declaration of the catholic bishops, the vicars apostolic and their coadjutors in Great Britain.

Mode of access: Internet.

Voyages liturgiques de France, ou, Recherches faites en diverses villes du royaume /

Includes index.

Publications of the Catholic Record Society.

Each vol. has also a distinctive title.