scholarly journals Moral Calls Resulting from the Gift of the Eucharist in the Teaching of Pope Benedict XVI

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Marek Kluz
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Gift

The role of the Eucharist in shaping the moral life is enormous and in fact, thanks to the Eucharist, the essence of Christian life can be read. Therefore, it is not surprising that Pope Benedict XVI has often addressed the Eucharist in his teachings. In this way, he wanted to deepen and revive the worship of Eucharistic Jesus. In his teachings, he showed the Eucharist as the greatest treasure given to man for shaping the moral life. He constantly reminded us of the obligations arising from the participation in the Eucharist. Because of its specificity, the Eucharist contains moral calls: to sacrifice, to feeding on the bread of life, to praise and giving thanks, and to living in faith and love. Fulfilling all these attitudes and moral calls in everyday life is a way to progress in the Eucharistic life.

scholarly journals The Ecclesiastical Role of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of confi rmation in the Teaching of Benedict XVI

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (2(26)) ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
Marek Kluz
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Special Power ◽  
The Church ◽  
Opening Up

Formation of an ecclesial community constitutes the basic moral call arising from reception of the sacrament of confi rmation. Formation of the person should also aim at accomplishing this objective. The Holy Spirit given in the sacrament of confi rmation plays a fundamental role in building the Church. Opening up to the gift of the Holy Spirit and submission to His direction allows to fi nd the proper place in the Church and accept full responsibility for destiny of the Church. The ecclesial role of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of conformation sounds signifi cantly in the teaching of Benedict XVI. In his speeches and documents, the Pope repeatedly brought the truth about the special power of the Holy Spirit and His gifts into building the community dimension of the life of the Church. Therefore, in this refl ection – based on allocations of Pope Benedict XVI – the ecclesiological role of the Holy Spirit, coming in the sacrament of confi rmation, was presented.

scholarly journals The Clash of Cultures of Radical Enlightenment and Humanism Open to Transcendence. The Perspective of Pope Benedict XVI

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 460
Author(s):  
Janusz Węgrzecki
Keyword(s):  
Positive Answer ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Radical Enlightenment ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Role Of Religion

The article analyzes the content of the Pope’s speeches discussing, reconstructing and interpreting the concept of two dominant western cultures and their mutual relationships to the perspective of Pope Benedict XVI, who calls them the culture of radical enlightenment and the culture of humanism that is open to transcendence. The article identifies fundamental contentious issues including: anthropological issues, human dignity, political anthropology, freedom, reason, its rationality, and the role of religion in the public sphere. Thus, the article provides a positive answer to the question of whether the perspective of the clash of cultures outlined by Samuel Huntington can be cognitively used in interpreting the contrast of cultures presented from the perspective of Pope Benedict XVI. However, contrary to Huntington, who describes the clash of western cultures with other, non-western cultures, Pope Benedict XVI claims that there is a clash between two dominant western cultures.

scholarly journals Of watchdogs and safe havens: control mechanisms and/in online sacred spaces

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 150-180
Author(s):  
Alexander Ornella
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Message Boards ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Media

‘Die große Schlacht. Der Hass des Satans auf Benedikt XVI. Non prae­valebunt’ is the headline of an article the Austrian-based and Catholic news portal, kath.net, published in early June 2012. It is about how badly and unfairly the media treat the Catholic Church and its official representatives in the wake of the so-called ‘Vatileaks’ scandal and it reasons that Satan is behind the attacks of the media, society, popular culture, on saintly figures such as Pope Benedict XVI. ‘Gegen die Diktatur des Relativismus’ is another article published on the same platform in the context of a conference hosted by the Catholic Heiligenkreuz monastery. On the forum kath.net, powerful language is employed to draw the faithful in, to make them feel themselves to be safe within a community of like-minded people in the midst of turmoil. News portals and message boards such as kath.net create safe spaces within a world whose culture, values, and morals are not only not understood but despised. The analysis is informed by critical discourse analysis and based on Paul Ricœur’s understanding of narratives and how narratives create worlds. As a first step, the concept of space and Ricœur’s understanding of narrative identity are discussed. After an introduction to the news portal kath.net, a close reading of some articles shows how these safe spaces are created and guarded. To conclude, a reflection on the implications of the self-understanding of kath.net and some of its user base on the understanding of hierarchy and the role of theology in the Church, is provided.

scholarly journals The Criteria of “Authentically” Catholic Theology: Reading Theology Today a Decade Later

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1071
Author(s):  
Ethna Regan
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Faith Integration ◽  
The Church

In light of the fecundity and diversity of Catholic theology since Vatican II, a 2012 report of the International Theological Commission (ITC) identified perspectives, principles, and criteria—distinctive family traits—of Catholic theology, what Pope Benedict XVI called its “genetic code”: primacy of the Word of God; the faith of the Church as its source, context, and norm; the science of faith; drawing constantly on the canonical witness of Scripture; fidelity to the Apostolic Tradition; attention to the sensus fidelium; responsible adherence to the ecclesiastical magisterium; practiced in collaboration with the whole company of theologians; in dialogue with the world; giving a scientifically and rationally argued presentation of the Christian faith; integration of plurality in the intellectus fidei; and sapiential. This article marks the 10th anniversary of the ITC report by offering a critical commentary on the criteria, examining the possibilities, limitations, and tensions inherent in each, and the ongoing relevance of these criteria for contemporary Catholic theology. It argues that although the aim of the ITC report is not to promote uniformity but to avoid fragmentation, and its framework is an ecclesiology of communion, when the interpretative possibilities of theology are discussed, the report tends to retreat from these possibilities and adopt a restrictive emphasis on conformity. The article then examines what Pope Francis (2013–) says about the characteristics of Catholic theology and the role of theologians in his major documents and his addresses to faculties of theology. It argues that Francis makes a distinctive contribution to consideration of what is “authentically” Catholic theology, and may offer a less restrictive understanding of such theology for the diverse academic, cultural, and ecclesial contexts in which Catholic theologians find themselves.

Lekcje świętości, lekcje cudowności... O Legendach z życia świętych Antoniny Domańskiej

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Renata Stachura-Lupa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Lives Of Saints ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

Sainthood Lessons, Sanctity Lessons. On Legendy z życia świętych [The Legends from the Lives of Saints] by Antonina Domańska Legendy z życia świętych by Antonina Domańska was released in 1917 by St. Adalbert’s Publishing House and Bookshop (Drukarnia i Księgarnia Św. Wojciecha) in Poznań, with which the writer had already cooperated before. The volume comprised six stories about saints which were arranged chronologically: about Saint Dismas, the Seven Sleepers, Saint George, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Kinga (Kunegunda), and the Blessed Simon of Lipnica, who was canonised in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. While writing this work, Domańska used both the hagiographic tradition, which was represented in Polish literature, above all, by The Lives of the Saints from the Old and New Testaments for Everyday in the Year [Żywoty świętych Starego i Nowego Zakonu, na każdy dzień przez cały rok] by Piotr Skarga, as well as her own experience of writing prose for children and the young adults. In Legendy z życia świętych she focused not only on didacticism, moralising and parenetic content, but also on the literary potential in the stories about the saints. The vision of the world and history in Domanska’s work is shaped by the Christian paradigm. History is the domain of God the Creator. It develops in a theological way, according to God’s plan, in which the saints play the role of a ‘mediator’ between Heaven and Earth, the sacred and the profane. The miracle manifests the presence of God in history, sometimes correcting its course, evoking or strengthening the need for transcendence in people.

The role of gossip in everyday life

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Hom ◽  
Jonathan Haidt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life

The role of gossip in everyday life

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Hom ◽  
Jonathan Haidt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life

"‘A Peculiar Gift of Providence": The Power-Imbalance Caused by Gift-Giving in Millenium Hall

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisia Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Power Imbalance ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
The Gift

Sarah Scott's eighteenth-century novel Millenium Hall canvasses the role of gift-giving in the dynamics heteronormative-domestic, economic, and spiritual relationships. The pharmakon of the gift plays a central role in Scott's understanding of philanthropy, and the construction of her female-inhabited, female-run utopia. This article's principle occupation is to show that all instances of gift-giving in Millenium Hall create power-imbalances between the superior giver and the inferior receiver; however, Sarah Scott's female utopia constructs the most preferable type of subservience.

A Rhetorics of the Word

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
Hermann Broch ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling in Christian life. However, ideas of vocation are difficult to access in a world shaped by the experience of disenchantment. The difficulties of articulating vocation are explored with reference to Weber, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard. These are further connected to a general crisis of language, manifesting in the degradation of political discourse (Arendt) and the impact of new communications technology on human discourse. This impact can be seen as reinforcing an occlusion of language in favour of rationality already evidenced in the philosophical tradition and technocratic management. New possibilities for thinking vocation are pursued through the biblical prophets (with emphasis on Buber’s and Rosenzweig’s reinterpretation of the call of Moses), Saint John, and Russian philosophies of language (Florensky to Bakhtin). Vocation emerges as bound up with the possibility of being name-bearers, enabling a mutuality of call and response. This is then evidenced further in ethics and poetics, where Levinas and Hermann Broch (The Death of Virgil) become major points of reference. In conclusion, the themes of calling and the name are seen to shape the possibility of love—the subject of the final part of the philosophy of Christian life: A Metaphysics of Love.

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