This article engages the condition of religious apathy in western secular society, drawing on the apparent pessimism of secularization as a creative catalyst for re-imagining the scope of public mission. It first highlights the reality of religious apathy as observed sociologically, and briefly surveys varied missiological responses to western church decline. An alternative response, ‘Radical Inculturated Proclamation’ is then offered, embodying the inherently paradoxical nature of the Gospel as both drastically distinct and culturally embedded within the religiously apathetic western context. This concept is further explored with a nuanced reflection on the intentionally ‘absurd’ idea of self-aware street preaching and the possible implications for creative interruption of contemporary public spaces. Incorporating the perceived inappropriateness of such practices is deliberate, enabling active embodiment of the Gospel’s inculturated radicality within a public sphere with no apparent ears to hear. Such a proposal contributes to public theological engagement by reconstructing the cultural and theological limitations of contemporary kerygmatic expression within a post-Christendom context.

本文利用世俗化的明显悲观主义作为重新想象公共使命范围的创造性催化剂，来探讨西方世俗社会中宗教冷漠的状况。它首先强调了从社会学角度观察到的宗教冷漠的现实，并简要调查了对西方教会衰落的各种宗教学反应。然后提供了另一种回应，即“激进的教化宣告”，体现了福音固有的自相矛盾性质，既在宗教上冷漠的西方语境中又有明显的不同和文化上的嵌入。对该概念进行了进一步的探讨，并细化了对自我意识的街头宣讲的故意“荒谬”想法的思考，以及对当代公共空间创造性中断的潜在影响。融入感知在这种做法的适当性是故意的，能够与没有明显的耳朵听到一个公共领域内的福音的inculturated的激进的活性实施例。这样的提议通过在后基督教时代的背景下重构当代的言语表达的文化和神学局限性，从而促进了公众神学的参与。