Kultur des Todes - Kultur des Lebens: Moraltheologie zwischen Rezeption und Kritik der modernen pluralistischen Gesellschaft
The encyclical Evangelium Vitae speaks of the sharp contrast between the 'culture of death' and the 'culture of life', between the culture of secularized, pluralist societies with their liberalized ethics, and a moral ethos of Christian humanism reflected on in the light of faith...
| Pubblicato in: | Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie |
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Articolo |
| Lingua: | Tedesco |
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1998
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Teologia morale
/ Pluralismo
/ Postmoderno
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | CC Cristianesimo; religione non cristiana; relazioni interreligiose KDB Chiesa cattolica NCA Etica |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Theology
B ethical argumentation B Chiesa cattolica B Ethische Argumentation B Catholic Church B Moderne Gesellschaft B Sittenlehre / Etica B Ethics B concept of life B Pluralism B Lebensbegriff B Teologia B Pluralismo B Modern Society |
| Edizione parallela: | Elettronico
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| Riepilogo: | The encyclical Evangelium Vitae speaks of the sharp contrast between the 'culture of death' and the 'culture of life', between the culture of secularized, pluralist societies with their liberalized ethics, and a moral ethos of Christian humanism reflected on in the light of faith. This article assesses the charge that the ethics of modern culture tends towards a 'culture of death'. Modern culture, on the one hand, makes possible a technical approach to life's problems, an approach which brings about, in many spheres, life-enhancing relief. Equally, however, a culture of liberal rationality pursued to the extreme, where life's burdens are always something to be removed by technical means, threatens to land up-given a context of pluralist, libertarian ideas-in inhumane paradoxes. Such a culture – as clearly appears in the case of ante-natal diagnosis – can come to work against the interests of life itself. Theological ethics must certainly respect the autonomy of the different spheres of human life if it is to judge situations in ways appropriate to their reality. But for its part secular reason must respect the theological dimension. Otherwise it degrades human dignity precisely at the points where it is most radically under threat: the beginning and end of human life, and situations of unavoidable conflict. |
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| ISSN: | 0044-2895 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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