OAR@UM Collection:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/325482024-03-28T14:54:12Z2024-03-28T14:54:12ZMethod in the social teaching of the churchhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/327052018-08-15T01:32:55Z1982-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Method in the social teaching of the church
Abstract: When Leo XII dealt with the labour question, he raised the
question and tried to solve it on the basis 'Of a theory of society, even
if such a theory was moo:-e implied rather than explicitly stated. Pius XI
was perhaps even more conscious than his predecessor ,of the need to
approach the labour question in the context 'of an explicit social
theory. Much of the criticism that was leveled in the sixties against
the earlier social teaching tradition in the Catholic Church centered on
the difficulties inherent in the concept of social systems in general. it was pointed out that human life is too complex a 'reality to fit any
conceptual scheme and that history is continuously bringing new insights
and technical possibilities which necessitate a critical and open
attitude toward social systems.1982-01-01T00:00:00ZMemory and forgetfulness : a theme of christian metaphysicshttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/327032018-08-15T01:33:04Z1982-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Memory and forgetfulness : a theme of christian metaphysics
Abstract: This paper aims at a critical theology of communications. It is
based on Hegel's presentation of few point of the story of western metaphysics:
Its inability to "hold on to death". The power ,of that critical
presentation of the metaphysical-scientific project derives from a communicatively,
i.e. relatingly conceived Absolute which has taken death,
difference and finiteness into itself: Only by relating himself in finite
terms, can God communicate adequately. In doing so, he tells not only
his, but also the world's story. Presenting himself, he presents also the
world's nature; placing critique, negation and death into his self, he
criticizes death-forgetful and God-defensive mankind. In telling the
world's story, a story which is forgetful .of death, and therefore defensive
against the dying God, God tells his own story. Reminding man of himself,
he also reminds of metaphysics' God-amnesia. The paper leans
strongly .on Theunissen's theological Hegel-interpretation and argues on
the basis of the "atheism", disclosed at the end of western metaphysics,
as a constitutive moment of theological reflection. 'It is :critical of
contemporary religions 'Of "meaning-bestowal" and "nomizing" "holiness",
dmwing from the sociology of knowledge or from nineteenth century
Kantianism. It is also critical of theologies standing close to' these
movements. But this critique becomes apparent only toward the end
of the paper, after the dialectic of memory and forgetfulness has been
elaborated as a central issue of western metaphysics in the first part.
The second shows how that dialectic is closely associated with the
conception of a deathless God, which conception triggers the compensate:
foreknowledge 'Of death and definite having been repressed, ideological
meaning now has to be produced. The third part of the paper indicates
how in Hegel's thought the termination of western metaphysics is disclosed
with its inner logic. This logic is characterized by the intimate
relation 'of God-amnesia and a 'repression ,of the knowledge of death.
This dose association having been "elevated" as the inner working of
western metaphysics at its end, the fourth part develops Hegel's theologic
as a narrative source of critique, which in the fifth and final portion
is shown to have trinitarian structure.1982-01-01T00:00:00ZMelita Theologica : volume 33 : issue 1-2https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/326992018-08-15T01:32:52Z1982-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Melita Theologica : volume 33 : issue 1-2
Abstract: 1/Forte, B. - La teologia Europea di fronte alle sfide del pensiero moderno e dei mutamenti ecclesiali -- 2/AHLERS, R. - Memory and forgetfulness: a theme of christian metaphysics -- 3/GRIMA, G. - Method in the social teaching of the church -- 4/SERRACINO INGLOTT, P. - The rights of future generations: some socio-philosophical considerations1982-01-01T00:00:00ZThe rights of future generations : some socio-philosophical considerationshttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/326822019-11-04T13:17:09Z1982-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The rights of future generations : some socio-philosophical considerations
Abstract: The American Philosophical Association, in the February 1973
issue of its Bulletin (No. 14), :requested contributions on the topic: "Can
it be asserted that future generations have rights, for example, to pure
air?" The response raised two second-order questions: (a) why did the
participants find so little explicit discussion of the problem to work
upon? Cb) why did they find so much interest in it now?
The paradox in the conjunction of these two questions is not very
difficult to resolve:the problem has only become real recently. The
reasons for its late emergence, however, may well deserve stating.1982-01-01T00:00:00Z