Nuclear War and Vatican Council II
“The Christian man, and every man, lives between the times of the fallen creation and the redemption of the whole creation. His problem in trying to tell what he should do falls within the dialectic between the here and now of fallen existence and the there and then of a restored human reality. At h...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1966
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Theology today
Year: 1966, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 244-263 |
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| Summary: | “The Christian man, and every man, lives between the times of the fallen creation and the redemption of the whole creation. His problem in trying to tell what he should do falls within the dialectic between the here and now of fallen existence and the there and then of a restored human reality. At his peril he ignores either of these dimensions, by failing to take responsibility for the preservation of real political order in the world, or by failing to take responsibility for introducing radical changes into the existing world political system. … Yet all action that has in view the actual transformation of the world political system must be located in this world and not some other. A man must take care that his zeal and idealism is not a matter of high-minded rebellion against the governor and preserver of the existing world. This means that a political order is worth something only if it is real, and not merely ideal.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057366602300209 |