The Political Legacy of Pope John Paul II

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Formicola
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
John Paul Ii

Political Theory and Political Theology

2020 ◽  
pp. 248-258
Author(s):  
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ◽  
Mirjam Künkler ◽  
Tine Stein
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The State ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Political Field ◽  
John Paul Ii

In this article, Böckenförde tries to determine the proper means of conducting political theology. After dismissing juridical political theology in the vein of Carl Schmitt as not so much theological but rather sociological in its discussion of how original theological terms such as ‘sovereignty’ were transposed to the state, people, or government, he turns to two other models: Böckenförde sees a shift away from classical institutional political theology à la Augustine, which explores what Christianity has to say about a state’s status, legitimation, and structure, to what he calls appellative political theology. Immediately concerned with action, the latter manifests itself inter alia as liberation theology and tends to run the risk of dissolving into theologically justified, and ultimately arbitrary, politics. As an alternative model, Böckenförde extols the political theology of Pope John Paul II. By focusing on the words of Jesus and the Gospel and other topics that appear ‘nonpolitical’ at first glance, the pope makes the case for dignity, liberty, and the purpose of man, taking the side of the weak and rejecting violence. In Böckenförde’s view, such a political theology is not about to be rendered obsolete by modernity. Since politics is essentially concerned with relations between individuals and groups, religion cannot avoid being drawn into the political field and raise its voice there as well.

scholarly journals Fascinating Flesh: Revealing the Catholic Foucault

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
James Bernauer
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
The Political ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Church

The Catholic dimension in Foucault’s examination of the Church Fathers is featured because neglect of it may misrepresent the very notions of virginity and of flesh in Confessions of the Flesh. Failure to appreciate the tension between a seditious flesh and an incarnational flesh implicitly confines the Patristic vision to the limited modern field of “sexuality.” The fourth volume might be best interpreted against the background of the investigations that prompted Foucault to immerse himself in religious texts and spiritual experiences: his early writings on literature; the later interest of his lectures in pastoral technologies; and his witnessing of the political-spiritual movements both in Islam (the Iranian revolution) and in Catholicism (the anti-military protests in South America and the anti-Communism denunciations of Pope John Paul II).

John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
Centesimus Annus

Pope John Paul II wrote his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus to offer a Catholic vision of political and economic life after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the democratization of many countries in Latin America and Asia. The encyclical provided a stronger defense of the free-market economy than had previous Catholic social teaching, and neoconservative Catholics saw it as a vindication of their views. Centesimus Annus also harshly condemns consumerism, however, and proposes that the state has a greater role in ensuring that the economy serves the common good than do the neoconservatives. John Paul II recognizes the essential role of human creativity and ingenuity in the economy, but balances this by emphasizing that the human person is the recipient of God’s grace.

Unborn Persons: Pope John Paul II and the Abortion Debate

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Jean Porter ◽  
James J. McCartney ◽  
Robert J. Spitzer
Keyword(s):  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
John Paul Ii

scholarly journals Transformations of Catholic denominations in the years of Ukraine's Independence

2005 ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
Olga V. Nedavnya
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The World ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Adequate study of Catholicism in Ukraine is impossible without taking into account its progress in the world, especially in the last century. The experience of comprehending the reality of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and rethinking its entire historical path led to qualitative transformations of this denomination. After the Second Vatican Council, and especially with the pontificate of Pope John Paul II on Catholicism, we can speak of a significant phenomenon of modern spiritual life.

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