Ars Christiane Philosophandi: John Paul II and Jacques Maritain on Christian Philosophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-101
Author(s):  
Matthew DuBroy
Keyword(s):  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
John Paul Ii

What Difference Do Women Make? Retelling the Story of Catholic Responses to Secularism

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Brenna Moore
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Private Realm ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
The Catholic Church

The boundaries drawn by secularism have limited religion to the “private” realm, not merely the arena of conscience and belief but also family structure, intimacy, and (women’s) sexuality. The Catholic Church, particularly through the intellectual and administrative influence of John Paul II, has advanced its counter-cultural stance on these issues based on the realist personalist philosophy of Jacques Maritain. However, if we introduce women as thinkers and protagonists into the story of the Catholic responses to secularism in Europe, how does it change? Not only women, but what happens if we pay attention to how gender and sexuality are threaded into the narrative? What differences emerge? Looking to the life and works of Raïssa Maritain, especially her celibate marriage and adoptive kinship network, we see a personalist and deeply Christian understanding of intimacy that consciously distances itself from heterosexual, procreative complementarity.

Meeting Jacques Maritain

1982 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-488
Author(s):  
Leo R. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
The Public

There were and still are several ways of meeting — getting acquainted with, knowing — the philosopher Jacques Maritain, the centenary of whose birth is this year. We could consult people who knew him, heard him lecture and hobnobbed with him; we could read his voluminous letters to and from Yves Simon, letters to which we hope the public will soon have access; and we might ask him what he meant by “Christian philosophy,” a key concept in many of his sixty published books.

scholarly journals Stanisław Kamiński’s Philosophy as Christian Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Kingsley Mbamara Sebastine
Keyword(s):  
Classical Theory ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Fides Et Ratio ◽  
First Philosophy

This article argues that Kaminski’s concept of philosophy meets the requirements for being a Christian philosophy as articulated by John Paul II. In the encyclical letter Fides et Ratio, John Paul II affirmed the possibility, existence, meaning, and need for a Christian philosophy. He distinguished three stances of philosophy concerning the Christian faith. First, philosophy should be completely independent of the Biblical Revelation but implicitly open to the supernatural. A second stance adopted by philosophy is often designated as Christian philosophy. Third, philosophy presents another stance that is closely related to theology. Kamiński constructed an understanding of philosophy that is original, universal, and autonomous. Such a notion of philosophy (and its methodology) was based on the classical theory of being, which fulfils the demand for the autonomy of philosophy through its relationship with faith. Kamiński’s doctrinal standpoints in philosophy are rational, objective, and universal. According to him, philosophy is also compatible with the Christian faith. In this sense, one can speak of his philosophy as a Christian philosophy. --------------- Received: 22/04/2021. Reviewed: 06/09/2021. Accepted: 23/10/2021.

The Personalism of Nikolai Berdiaev

2020 ◽  
pp. 308-326
Author(s):  
Ana Siljak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Central Value ◽  
Eric Voegelin ◽  
The Church

Nikolai Berdiaev was a prominent personalist philosopher in inter-war Europe, influencing such disparate thinkers as Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Hannah Arendt, and Eric Voegelin. This chapter looks at Berdiaev’s personalism, especially its origins in his pre-revolutionary writings, focusing on Berdiaev’s call for a new Christian philosophy of the person, one that would assert the central value of the human person and insist on the full freedom of the person in relationship to society, the church, and the state. Berdiaev’s trenchant critique of the erasure of the person in modernity, and his prescient insights into the essence of twentieth-century totalitarianism, led him to become one of the leading European intellectuals of the inter-war era.

The Concept of Christian Philosophy in Edith Stein

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-346
Author(s):  
Robert McNamara ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Science ◽  
Edith Stein ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Object Domain ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Science Philosophy

In her mature thought, Edith Stein presents a philosophy that is positively Christian and specifically Catholic. The rationale behind her presentation rests upon three interplaying factors: the nature of philosophy; the nature and state of finite creatures in relation to God; and the meaning of being a Christian. Stein maintains that given the essential imperfection and natural limitation of philosophy as a human science, philosophy lies interiorly open for its elevation and completion through its supplementation by the supernatural contents of Revelation, yet in such a way that it retains its proper philosophical character precisely as determined by its specific object domain appropriately investigated. In this paper, I critically examine this provocative proposal of Stein by setting it in contrast to “the Thomistic solution” of Jacques Maritain, upon which Stein’s solution to the question foundationally relies, and thereby intend to manifest its basic significance while simultaneously assessing its philosophical validity.

Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 11th July 1982

Moreana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (Number 157- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
John McConica
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

During the period in which these papers were given, there were great achievements on the ecumenical scene, as the quest to restore the Church’s unity was pursued enthusiastically by all the major Christiandenominations. The Papal visit of John Paul II to England in 1982 witnessed a warmth in relationships between the Church of England and the Catholic Church that had not been experienced since the early 16th century Reformation in England to which More fell victim. The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission was achieving considerable doctrinal consensus and revisionist scholarship was encouraging an historical review by which the faithful Catholic and the confessing Protestant could look upon each other respectfully and appreciatively. It is to this ecumenical theme that James McConica turns in his contribution.

Catholicism and Cosmopolitanism: the Confluence of Three Catholic Scholars and the Cosmopolitan Democrats on State Sovereignty and the Future of Global Governance

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Matthew Bagot
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cosmopolitan Democracy ◽  
Catholic Tradition

One of the central questions in international relations today is how we should conceive of state sovereignty. The notion of sovereignty—’supreme authority within a territory’, as Daniel Philpott defines it—emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 as a result of which the late medieval crisis of pluralism was settled. But recent changes in the international order, such as technological advances that have spurred globalization and the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect, have cast the notion of sovereignty into an unclear light. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate regarding sovereignty by exploring two schools of thought on the matter: first, three Catholic scholars from the past century—Luigi Sturzo, Jacques Maritain, and John Courtney Murray, S.J.—taken as representative of Catholic tradition; second, a number of contemporary political theorists of cosmopolitan democracy. The paper argues that there is a confluence between the Catholic thinkers and the cosmopolitan democrats regarding their understanding of state sovereignty and that, taken together, the two schools have much to contribute not only to our current understanding of sovereignty, but also to the future of global governance.

EL SABER HISTÓRICO NATURAL. UNA PROPUESTA INSPIRADA EN LA EPISTEMOLOGÍA DE JACQUES MARITAIN

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Eduardo Eduardo Carreño P. ◽  
Alejandro Serani M
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Maritain

<p>En este artículo se aporta una clarificación del estatuto que les compete a la paleontología y a otras disciplinas. Tomando como fundamento la epistemología<br />desarrollada por Jacques Maritain, sostenemos que esta clase de indagaciones, por su objeto pretérito y contingente, y por su metodología interpretativa, constituyen un tipo epistemológico específico, diferente del de la ciencia, que aquí catalogamos como histórico-natural.</p>

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