Non-Christians in the Normative Culture of the Catholic Church between Antiquity and the Modern Era: A Select Bibliography

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Select Bibliography ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Catholic Church

scholarly journals On natural law as a possible normative reference point in legislative processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Bogdan Szlachta
Keyword(s):  
Classical Theory ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legislative Processes ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Catholic Church

In the modern era, the only indicator of the validity of law is that it is passed by the authorities in accordance with procedures. Has the classical theory of natural law ceased to matter? The author, referring to contemporary statements of popes and documents of the Catholic Church, analyses what significance natural law has today from a normative point of view and why it is particularly important in the present-day world, as well as in a multicultural world.

scholarly journals PURGATORY: TO THE QUESTION OF GENESIS AND TRANSFORMATION (HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS STUDY ANALYSIS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Valerii Kuzev
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Study ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The Right ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Satisfaction Model ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article is devoted to some issues of the formation and transformation of the purgatory doctrine in Catholic philosophical and theological thought. Two aspects of this phenomenon are considered: the probable influence of other religions on the formation of the Christian idea of purgatory and the regress of the retributive component in the concept of purgatory in the modern era. Through a historical-religious analysis the author tests the hypothesis about the influence of other religions on the formation of the Christian doctrine of purgatory. Particular attention is paid to the Zoroastrian idea of a separate place for the middle category of souls. The author comes to the conclusion that, despite a number of common features, the two doctrines reveal significant differences, which does not give us the right to speak about direct borrowing. In the second part of the article the question of regress of the concept of punitive retribution relative to purgatory is examined. The author reproduces the classical doctrinal system of the purgatory presented in Thomism and compares it with the variation of the doctrine that is represented in modern documents of the Catholic Church. The author holds the opinion that the doctrine of purgatory was formed in the environment of theological legalism and is by its nature a penitentiary concept. The classical concept of purgatory provides that purification is done through punishment. This concept may be called a "satisfaction model". However, in modern Catholic thought there is a departure from this model in favor of the other. The author claims that now the traditional retributive model of hell – and purgatory has always belonged to the infernal region – is experiencing its decline as a result of deep transformations in the ethical, axiological and legal sphere. Catholic doctrine of purgatory reflects a general tendency to eliminate the retributive element from infernology. According to modern documents of the Catholic Church, purgatory is now understood as a state/place where a person must experience the deep inner transformation necessary to join the divine being. This understanding of purgatory may be called the "sanctification model". Now the Catholic Church is trying to combine these approaches with a noticeable predominance of the second approach. The author believes that in the logical-rational area the indicated connection leads to an imbalance of the entire system, since there are serious internal differences between these approaches.

scholarly journals A CRISE DA IGREJA CATÓLICA: ALGUNS DADOS EMPÍRICOS E PERSPECTIVAS TEOLÓGICAS

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (126) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Joaquín Silva Soler
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Being ◽  
New Evangelization ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The Times ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Catholic Church

O artigo analisa o resultado de pesquisa realizada, em 2012, pelo Centro de Políticas Públicas e o Instituto de Sociologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Chile sobre a Igreja Católica nesse país. Os dados do estudo mostram uma situação de crise do catolicismo chileno. Tal crise tem causas diversas, intra e extra eclesial: mudança cultural profunda, crise de identidade missionária da Igreja, crise de fé, crise de confiança, crise que convida a uma nova evangelização. A constatação dos limites da presença e influência da Igreja católica na era pós-moderna constitui desafio oportuno para se afirmar a importância da proposta do Cristianismo como caminho para a felicidade pessoal e para ajudar a construir uma sociedade onde reinem a justiça, a paz e a liberdade. O autêntico cristão vive a fé comprometido com a realidade integral do ser humano e da sociedade. Tal empenho se vincula ao sentido escatológico da fé e da vida eclesial. Os cristãos são chamados a manter viva a esperança, procurando superar a crise através da vivência da conversão e do perdão no seguimento de Jesus Cristo, sempre atentos aos sinais dos tempos.ABSTRACT: The article looks at the result of research carried out in 2012, by the Center for Public Policy and the Institute of Sociology of the Catholic University of Chile on the Catholic Church in that country. The data of the study show a crisis situation of Chilean Catholicism. This crisis has many causes, intra and extra ecclesial: a profound cultural change, a crisis of the Church’s missionary identity, a crisis of confidence, a crisis that calls for a new evangelization. The finding of the limits of the presence and influence of the Catholic Church in the post-modern era is a timely challenge to assert the importance of the proposal of Christianity as a path to personal happiness and to help build a society where justice, peace and freedom reign. The authentic Christian lives the faith committed to the integral reality of the human being and of society. Such commitment is linked to the eschatological sense of faith and ecclesial life. Christians are called to keep alive the hope, trying to overcome the crisis through the experience of conversion and forgiveness in the following of Jesus Christ, always attentive to the signs of the times. 

scholarly journals Estándares contemporáneos de buena gobernanza. Factores sistémicos en la crisis de los abusos en la Iglesia Católica

Pelícano ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 072-097
Author(s):  
Carlos Schickendantz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Institutional Aspect ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Catholic Church

Contemporary Standards of Good Governance. Systemic Factors in The Crisis of Abuse in The Catholic Church ResumenLa cuestión del abuso sexual de menores constituye una de las crisis más significativas de la Iglesia Católica en la era moderna. En primer lugar, este artículo ofrece múltiples argumentos para la comprensión del asunto a partir de unos textos norteamericanos especializados. El segundo momento representa el núcleo de la contribución: con el análisis de varios informes de diferentes nacionalidades, particularmente australiano y alemán, se pone de relieve el aspecto institucional de lo sucedido en la Iglesia Católica, en especial sus disfunciones sistémicas que, como se muestra con diversos argumentos, converge con reflexiones ya elaboradas en agendas teológicas de reformas en la Iglesia. AbstractThe issue of sexual abuse of minors constitutes one of the most significant crises of the Catholic Church in the modern era. In the first place, this article offers several arguments for the understanding of the subject from specialized North American texts. The second moment represents the core of the contribution: with the analysis of several reports of different nationalities, particularly Australian and German, the institutional aspect of the issue that occurred in the Catholic Church is highlighted, especially its systemic dysfunctions, which, as depicted with various arguments, converges with reflections already elaborated in theological agendas of reforms in the Church. Key words: Clericalism, Governance System, Accountability, Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Political risks of recovering and discovering meanings in the collective memory of a perverse religious organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Eduardo Acuña Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Conversion Event ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article refers to the political risks that a group of five parishioners, members of an aristocratic Catholic parish located in Santiago, Chile, had to face when they recovered and discovered unconscious meanings about the hard and persistent psychological and sexual abuse they suffered in that religious organisation. Recovering and discovering meanings, from the collective memory of that parish, was a sort of conversion event in the five parishioners that determined their decision to bring to the surface of Chilean society the knowledge that the parish, led by the priest Fernando Karadima, functioned as a perverse organisation. That determination implied that the five individuals had to struggle against powerful forces in society, including the dominant Catholic Church in Chile and the political influences from the conservative Catholic elite that attempted to ignore the existence of the abuses that were denounced. The result of this article explains how the five parishioners, through their concerted political actions and courage, forced the Catholic Church to recognise, in an ambivalent way, the abuses committed by Karadima. The theoretical basis of this presentation is based on a socioanalytical approach that mainly considers the understanding of perversion in organisations and their consequences in the control of anxieties.

The origins of the Catholic Social Guild in Scotland: ‘We have not attacked the Socialists professedly’

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Potocki
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Social Message ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
The Catholic Church

The activities of John Wheatley's Catholic Socialist Society have been analysed in terms of liberating Catholics from clerical dictation in political matters. Yet, beyond the much-discussed clerical backlash against Wheatley, there has been little scholarly attention paid to a more constructive response offered by progressive elements within the Catholic Church. The discussion that follows explores the development of the Catholic social movement from 1906, when the Catholic Socialist Society was formed, up until 1918 when the Catholic Social Guild, an organisation founded by the English Jesuit Charles Plater, had firmly established its local presence in the west of Scotland. This organisation played an important role in the realignment of Catholic politics in this period, and its main activity was the dissemination of the Church's social message among the working-class laity. The Scottish Catholic Church, meanwhile, thanks in large part to Archbishop John Aloysius Maguire of Glasgow, became more amenable to social reform and democracy.

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