Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part 1)

· Arthur J. Lenti, volume 03
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by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB

Lenti-Don_Boscos_Missionary_Dreams-Part_I-Journal_Salesian_Studies-Vol03_No2-Fall1992

Subjects:

  • Prefatory Note
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Preliminary Questions on Don Bosco’s Dreams in General and on the Missionary Dreams in Particular
  • Origin, Tradition and Redaction of the Dream Narratives
  • Dream Narratives in Relation to the Dream Experience
  • Don Bosco’s Dreams as Real Dreams
  • Real Dreams?
  • Interpretation of Don Bosco’s Dream Narratives as Dreams
  • The Revelatory Character of Don Bosco’s Dreams
  • Typology of Don Bosco’s Dream Narratives with Special Reference to the Missionary Dreams
  • Part Two: The First Missionary Dream (1871/1872) –Don Bosco’s Resolve and Option for the Missions
  • Don Don Bosco’s Missionary Vocation-Development of His Missionary Awareness Leading to the First Missionary Dream
  • Don Bosco Early Missionary Awareness
  • Don Bosco’s Missionary Awareness in the Context of the Resurgence of Missionary Activity in the Church of the Nineteenth Century
  • Religious Communities and the Missions
  • Determining Influences
  • The Missionary Atmosphere Surrounding Vatican I
  • Textual History and Text of the First Missionary Dream
  • Textual History
  • Text of the First Missionary Dream
  • Part Three: The Two South American Dreams
  • The Second Missionary Dream
  • The Struggle for the Establishment of the Patagonian Missions as Context of the Second Missionary Dream
  • Textual Tradition and Text of the Second Missionary Dream
  • The Third Missionary Dream (January 31, 1885)
  • Textual Tradition and Text of the Third Mission Dream