by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB
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