The Formation of a New Christendom: a Discursive Political Project of the Neocatechumenal Way

Abstract

The research that is presented examines the political phenomenon represented by the Neocatechumenal Way, a self-entitled movement of a Christian initiative that emerged onto the ecclesiastical scene during the 1960s and which, according to one of its founders, the artist Francisco Gomes-Argüello, is currently present in more than a hundred countries. The scope of the analysis was limited to the project of rescuing primitive Christianity, as presented by the group, and to the intent of forming a new Christendom as identified by the movement’s discourse - a situation that ends up generating a paradoxical reality.