ABSTRACT
Lig's personal, ambitious, highly creative, response to his situation was to initiate a new approach to deal with every aspect of the problem. From his time in Germany he saw the necessity of a systematic approach to theology. His pastoral theology is centred on the to act of the church, l'agir, he writes, the to act rather than l'action, which obviously would have been clearer. His theology addressed the church as a corporate entity made up of corporate Eucharistic communities. Everything Lig strove for was vindicated a decade later in the thoroughly pastoral approach of Vatican II. To initiate a pastoral theology and establish its scientific character as its own theological discipline was Lig's achievement. His concern is the transmission of faith so as to transform a disciple's life, a life from henceforth oriented on God, or a converted life. So Lig sees kerygmatic and catechetic pastoral theology as essentially the same thing.
