The so-called theological-political problem is mainly to examine the place given to religion in the construction of the city. In this debate, two major opposing trends.
For some, the revelation should inform the society as a whole. Striving to make a policy of Sacred Scripture, the school met in this respect, Dostoevsky and Bernanos, Martin Buber and Pierre Boutang Radical orthodoxy number of intellectuals and communitarians. A Peguy to insist only on him, develops a mystique of its "carnal earth" , to which he assigns a mission to election. Ever present in Protestant or Orthodox tradition, this school of thought is not unrelated, in its defense of a political community sitting on spiritual foundations, even mystical, with Judaism.
However, dreaming of building the earthly city of God, our writers take the risk of pulling out the good with the bad. It is unclear what the surplus remaining in specifically political thought which seems to close the door to any collaboration of citizens of one state, believers and unbelievers, the elaboration of a common good.
For others, there is a strictly political field that the Greek philosophers were able to highlight, irreducible to the religious dimension or the divine teachings. The human mind is capable of organizing this friendship to own natural human animals. They are able to make laws and to obey an authority to promote the good of all.
The difficulty is that we are obliged, throwing a glance at the past century or scanning projects such as our leaders in the field of bioethics, the failure to find Because of this policy that seems inevitably incline to make the State an idol, as one can convince a careful reading of the Social Contract .
Does it then via media? What does the voice of the Magisterium?
In his speech to the British Parliament issued September 17, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI tends to give reason for the latter, but making an important point: "the central question that arises is this: where can I find the ethical basis of political choices? Catholic tradition maintains that the objective standards that direct action is right accessible to reason, even without the content of Revelation. Under this approach, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to provide such standards as if they could not be known by non-believers - much less to propose concrete political solutions, which in anyway would be beyond the power of religion - but rather to help purify reason and to provide illumination for the implementation thereof in the discovery of objective moral principles. "
Religion has a corrective role. Sin, jealousy, pride, lust does tend that too much to vitiate the reasoning of the best in appearance. In the state of collapse that characterizes humanity, it is unlikely that the human intellect can escape the trap of ignorance and error. Catholic teaching is there, not to replace the work of intelligence, but as a guide or light.
To us Catholics do not deceive us fighting. The goal is certainly not to build a camp of the saints, but a political community . But take care that the "heart" , the biblical notion of "ground of being" (Jer 31, 33) is "the root of thoughts" (If 37, 17), and, conversely, "hardness of heart causes ignorance" , that is to say as "the vanity of the mind and thoughts obtuseness " (cf. Eph 4:18). If we do not want to lose ourselves in all sorts of arguments in vain, if we believe that our political thinking, away to spin, really guide our action, let's not stay on the surface of our being. Above all, go down once in ourselves in order to meet the eyes of Christ.
For some, the revelation should inform the society as a whole. Striving to make a policy of Sacred Scripture, the school met in this respect, Dostoevsky and Bernanos, Martin Buber and Pierre Boutang Radical orthodoxy number of intellectuals and communitarians. A Peguy to insist only on him, develops a mystique of its "carnal earth" , to which he assigns a mission to election. Ever present in Protestant or Orthodox tradition, this school of thought is not unrelated, in its defense of a political community sitting on spiritual foundations, even mystical, with Judaism.
However, dreaming of building the earthly city of God, our writers take the risk of pulling out the good with the bad. It is unclear what the surplus remaining in specifically political thought which seems to close the door to any collaboration of citizens of one state, believers and unbelievers, the elaboration of a common good.
For others, there is a strictly political field that the Greek philosophers were able to highlight, irreducible to the religious dimension or the divine teachings. The human mind is capable of organizing this friendship to own natural human animals. They are able to make laws and to obey an authority to promote the good of all.
The difficulty is that we are obliged, throwing a glance at the past century or scanning projects such as our leaders in the field of bioethics, the failure to find Because of this policy that seems inevitably incline to make the State an idol, as one can convince a careful reading of the Social Contract .
Does it then via media? What does the voice of the Magisterium?
In his speech to the British Parliament issued September 17, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI tends to give reason for the latter, but making an important point:
Religion has a corrective role. Sin, jealousy, pride, lust does tend that too much to vitiate the reasoning of the best in appearance. In the state of collapse that characterizes humanity, it is unlikely that the human intellect can escape the trap of ignorance and error. Catholic teaching is there, not to replace the work of intelligence, but as a guide or light.
To us Catholics do not deceive us fighting. The goal is certainly not to build a camp of the saints, but a political community . But take care that the "heart" , the biblical notion of "ground of being" (Jer 31, 33) is "the root of thoughts" (If 37, 17), and, conversely, "hardness of heart causes ignorance" , that is to say as "the vanity of the mind and thoughts obtuseness " (cf. Eph 4:18). If we do not want to lose ourselves in all sorts of arguments in vain, if we believe that our political thinking, away to spin, really guide our action, let's not stay on the surface of our being. Above all, go down once in ourselves in order to meet the eyes of Christ.
Bruno Verley
