The mission of religious in contemporary world. What does it mean to be prophetic in our world?

The topic of this contribution includes three main elements: 1) religious life; 2) mission and prophecy 3) the contemporary world. I begin with the last point, and will briefly note contemporary threats to religious prophecy based on the belief that failure to acknowledge the harsh reality presented by the contemporary world will render our discussion of the prophetic mission of religious invalid, unfruitful discussion of the other religious life and its prophetic mission. The second step will be to define the prophet as understood historically and scripturally, to ensure a common starting point. Here I specifically note differing hermeneutics. With these foundations, I will proceed to the third part – the core argument of the role of the religious as prophet in our contemporary world. This role will be analyzed in the context of “relation” and a three-fold knowledge required for any prophetic mission, but specifically for religious ministering in the Church today.