Though social inequalities are found everywhere the hierarchical Caste system linked to birth is something peculiar to India. The Outcastes or the Dalits suffer social and economic oppression is various ways. This book explores this problem from a Christian perspective and suggests possible solutions towards building up communities.
Mission is central to Ignatian Spirituality. To spell out this Ignatian spirit the present work limits itself to the texts of Ignatius himself; if specific reference is made at times to the Society of Jesus and its structures, it is only insofar as this belongs to the “text” of Ignatius – a “text” in which he tried to institutionalise the charism that was both his and that his companions.
The approach is “hermeneutical” rather than just historical. The concrete question throughout is: “What inspiration can we draw today from the spirit of Ignatius, as recorded in his own writings, to meet the missionary challenges we face in the contemporary world?”.
Provocative in the best sens of the word, this book opens with a general overview of the challenges to mission in the contemporary world, and follows it up with another overview of the principal Igna-tian coordinates that help orientate us in trying to meet these chal-lenges. Against this background it goes on them to spell out in de-tail some of the specific callenges to mission today, as well as to reflect on them theologically and spiritually within a precisely Igna-tian perspective.
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