scholarly journals „Błogosławieni solidarni”

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-150
Author(s):  
Mateusz Ziemlewski
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
The Social

The issue of social issues was not alien in the theological reflection of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. A kind of opus magnum in the output of Pope Benedict XVI is the encycli-cal from 2009: Caritas in veritate. The Pope touches upon contemporary problems that concern humanity, trying to point to the most important capital which is a human being. At the same time, he indicates that for the defense of integral human development, it is necessary to agree and respect his spiritual layer. The Pope warns that humanism without God becomes inhuman humanism. An expression of solidarity is respect for religious free-dom, and the greatest enemy of solidarity, according to Benedict XVI, is marginalization. In 1983, in Bydgoszcz, there was a confrontation of the social movement of “Solidarity” with the civic militia. In response, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki dedicated his work to Byd-goszcz Miserere op. 44. The composer’s religious creativity in times of forcing the idea of practical materialism reminded us of a deeper (spiritual) layer of reality. The words taken from the Bible and the Roman Missal, accompanied by a four-part choir, lead the listener through meditation on the human person and life. The article points to the main idea of both authors not to degrade man to the material and biological. The evidence points to the theological way of the Pope’s command and the musical form of the message of religious content by H. M. Gorecki.

scholarly journals Globalización y relaciones. Globalisation and Relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael María De Balbín Behrmann
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Human Person ◽  
International Community ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
Global Solidarity

En su Encíclica Caritas in veritate el Papa Benedicto XVI sugiere la conveniencia de un estudio metafísico de la categoría de la relación, para fundamentar el análisis de la comunidad humana internacional como una familia, en la que tienen particular relevancia las relaciones interpersonales. Atendiendo esa sugerencia, se trata aquí de la relación predicamental y de la relación trascendental, de la especial importancia y dignidad de las relaciones interpersonales, y de la solidaridad global basada en las inclinaciones naturales de la persona humana.In his Encyclical Letter Caritas in veritate Pope Benedict XVI suggests the convenience of a metaphysical study on the category of relation, as the proper way for studying the human international community considered as a family, in which interpersonal relations have particular relevance. Following that suggestion, this paper deals with both predicative and transcendental relations, with the special importance and dignity of interpersonal relations, and with global solidarity based in the natural inclinations of the human person.

scholarly journals The mercy of God as the foundation of charity of the Church

Diacovensia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-651
Author(s):  
Wiesław Przygoda
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Bible ◽  
1 John ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church

Charity diaconia of the Church is not an accidental involvement but belongs to its fundamental missions. This thesis can be supported in many ways. The author of this article finds the source of the obligation of Christians and the whole Church community to charity service in the nature of God. For Christians God is Love (1 John 4, 8.16). Even though some other names can be found, (Jahwe , Elohim, Adonai), his principal name that encapsulates all other ones is Love. Simultaneously, God which is Love showed his merciful nature (misericordiae vultus) in the course of salvation. He did it in a historical, visible and optimal way through his Son, Jesus Christ through the embodied God’s Son, Jesus Christ, who loved the mankind so much that he sacrificed his life for us, being tortured and killed at the cross. This selfless love laid the foundations for the Church, which, in essence, is a community of loving human and God’s beings. Those who do not love, even though they joined the Church through baptism, technically speaking, do not belong to the Church since love is a real not a formal sign of belonging to Christ’s disciples (cf. John 13, 35). Therefore, charitable activity is a significant dimension of the Church’s mission as it is through charity that the Church shows the merciful nature of its Saviour. A question that needs to be addressed may be expressed as follows: in what way the image of God, who is love, implies an involvement in charity of an individual and the Church? An answer may be found in the Bible, writings of the Church Fathers of and the documents of Magisterium Ecclesiae and especially the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.

scholarly journals The Iceman Cometh (1939) is the Representation of the Social Problems by Eugene O’ Neill: Modern American Drama

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Haider Ibrahim Khalil ◽  
Abdullah Mohd Nawi ◽  
Ansam Ali Flefil
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
American Family ◽  
American Drama ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pipe Dream ◽  
Eugene O’Neill

The main aim of this paper is to trace the social problems in The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill. The social issues are the pipe dream and hopelessness of man in American family and society. These social problems leads to tragic issues. The researcher is going to use the socialism theory by Karl Marx to tackle social issues (the hopelessness of man and the pipe dream) to present the tragic problems. The analysis of data will be qualitative approach and the technique is interpretive as storytelling type. The data is collected by the textual method. In the analysis and discussions part, the researcher will use the play (The Iceman Cometh) as the main idea of analysing. In conclusion, the findings will be analysed the speech of the characters in the play such as the actions of the plot, setting, and characters. This study will contribute/ add to academic, social, cultural, and literary in modern American drama. For example, literary contribution will be generalized as new study about the social problems in O’Neill’s plays. This study adds the literary background to modern American drama.

Considering Benedict options: missiological reflections in a fractious age

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Paul V. Kollman
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Task

An adequate missiology depends, among other things, on a grasp of the present reality in which missiological reflection happens. The past few years of global political transformation invite consideration of a missiology adequate for the present fractiousness. This paper sketches three possible missiological stances for Christian communities to take vis-a-vis the world, each framed as a Benedict option. Option one derives from Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option and urges strategic withdrawal from the world, inspired by St. Benedict. Option two draws inspiration from Pope Benedict XVI and advances intellectual inquiry and understanding. Option three looks back to Pope Benedict XV to highlight ecclesial engagement in addressing social issues. An adequate missiology need not choose one option to the exclusion of the others. Instead it must draw upon critical theologies of Christ and church to forge missional faithfulness, an especially critical task in a fractious age.

scholarly journals Encyclical of Benedict XVI "Caritas and Veritate" - a new word in the social doctrine of Catholicism

2013 ◽  
pp. 406-415
Author(s):  
Yuriy Chornomorec
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

For centuries in Catholic theology there is a hidden or open struggle between the tendencies of Augustinian and Tomistic. Augustinovtsi - optimists in epistemology and pessimism in anthropology and social science. Tomies, on the contrary, consider the possibilities of cognition to be limited, but they are cautious optimists in anthropology and social science. The social doctrine of the Catholic Church has long relied on the notion of natural law and the common good, as they are developed in the teachings of Thomas Aquinas. Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclicals returned to the Augustinian theology of love as the only force that can help humanity today, at a time when all the negative aspects of human nature, which were so well known by Augustine, were revealed.

scholarly journals A fraternidade e as políticas públicas

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresinha De Resenes Marcon
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
The Church

Este artigo trabalha o conceito de fraternidade sob o prisma de umacategoria política, que tornou-se universal e efetivou os princípios da igualdadee liberdade. Este princípio trinitário nasceu dos ideais presentes na RevoluçãoFrancesa de 1789, foi assumida pela Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanosem 1948, e pela Doutrina Social da Igreja, especialmente pela Encíclica Caritasin Veritate de Bento XVI de 2009 e pela Constituição Federal do Brasil de 1988.Apresentam-se os elementos que caracterizam a fraternidade enquanto categoriapolítica: universalidade, mundialização, alteridade, diversidade e democraciaparticipativa. Vinculando o conceito de fraternidade na visão “(cosmo)política”trabalha-se o conceito de política e de políticas públicas; os responsáveis pelaconstrução das políticas públicas e as etapas de sua construção (ciclo daspolíticas públicas). Os mecanismos de gestão e de controle social – espaço deinterlocução/articulação entre o poder público e a sociedade civil – contribuempara a construção de uma sociedade mais fraterna, mais justa e solidária. Osprocedimentos que nos permitiram construir este trabalho estão embasados napesquisa bibliográfica.Palavras-chave: Política. Políticas Públicas. Fraternidade. Solidariedade.Democracia Participativa.Abstract: This article deals with the concept of fraternity from the perspective ofa political category, became universal and its existence effective the principlesof equality and freedom. This trinitarian principle was born of the ideals presentin the French Revolution of 1789, was assumed by the Universal Declarationof Human Rights in 1948 and by the Social Doctrine of the Church, especiallyby the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate of Benedict XVI of 2009 and by the FederalConstitution of Brazil of 1988. The elements that characterize fraternity as apolitical category are presented: universality, counter-hegemonic globalization,alterity, diversity and participatory democracy. Linking the concept of fraternity inthe “(cosmo) political” vision works the concept of politcs and public policies; theactors for the construction of public policies and the stages of their construction (public policies cycle). The mechanisms of management and social control –space for dialogue / articulation between the public power and civil society – con-tribute to the construction of a fraternal society, more just and in solidarity. Theprocedures that allowed us to build this work are based on bibliographic research.Keywords: Politcs. Public Policies. Fraternity. Solidarity. Participative Democracy.

Caritas in Veritate and Critical Theory: Locating Religion in the Public Sphere

Horizons ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Erin Brigham
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
Practical Model ◽  
Social Tradition ◽  
The Public Sphere

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the debate on the public voice of religion from two perspectives: contemporary critical theory and the Catholic social tradition. Using the recent conversation between Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) on religion and secularization as a point of entry, I argue that critical theory offers a framework of rationality that promotes dialogue between religious and secular individuals while the Catholic social tradition's principle of subsidiarity provides a practical model for how this dialogue can occur.

scholarly journals La visione del creato Allargare lo spazio della ragione

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Kampowski
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brute Fact ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Caritas In Veritate ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Nella sua enciclica Caritas in veritate Papa Benedetto XVI afferma che le domande connesse alla biotica impongono la scelta tra due razionalità: da una parte una razionalità che è aperta alla trascendenza e che si percepisce come risultato della creazione e d’altra parte una ragione chiusa nell’immanenza che non riesce a spiegare la sua origine. Per una razionalità di questo tipo la ragione stessa diventa un fatto inspiegabile e viene in ultima analisi ridotta all’irrazionale in quanto deriva dal caso. Per la bioetica la scelta tra queste due razionalità è di grande significato. Una visione del mondo come risultato del caso, governato dalle leggi meccaniche senza novità, senza significato e senza ragione facilmente conduce ad un’astrazione scientifica, che potrà permettere all’agire biotecnologico dell’uomo di dimenticare il fatto che la vita non è un mero fatto bruto ma esistenza con interesse che prosegue degli scopi. Se trascuriamo la vita come vita, non ci sono più limiti a ciò che potremmo permetterci di fare con un essere vivente, l’uomo incluso. In una visione del mondo come creato, come proveniente dal Logos, dalla ragione divina, invece, si trovano scopi e significati e con ciò anche limiti e criteri per il nostro agire, incluso il nostro agire biotecnologico. ---------- In his encyclical Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI suggests that it is precisely in bioethics that the problem of a choice between two kinds of rationality emerges in force. There is, on the one hand, a rationality that is open to transcendence and that knows that it is the result of creation; on the other hand, there is a reason that is closed in immanence and that does not succeed in explaining its own origin. For the latter kind of rationality, reason itself becomes a fact that is inexplicable and that in the final analysis is reduced to the irrational inasmuch as it derives from chance. We will argue that what is at stake here for bioethics is this: a vision of the world as the result of chance, governed by mechanical laws without novelty, without meaning and without reason easily leads to scientific abstraction, which can cause us to forget the fact that life is not a simple brute fact, but existence with concern that pursues its goals. If we fail to look at life as life, there will no longer be any limits to what we may permit ourselves to do with living beings, human beings included. In a vision of the world as created, as coming from the Logos, from divine reason, in contrast, there are goals and meanings and with that also limits and criteria for our action, including our biotechnological action.

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