RT Article
T1 Überlegungen zum Selbstverständnis katholischer Soziallehre
JF Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
VO 118
IS 1
SP 1
OP 22
A1 Guggenberger, Wilhelm 1966-
LA German
YR 1996
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/59660274X
AB The two main questions that catholic social teaching has to deal with are: In how far is the message of Jesus Christ relevant to the social-political field? How can the contents of this doctrine be conveyed in a pluralistic society? This essay shows the different ways of finding an answer to these questions in the course of the development of catholic social teaching since "Rerum novarum" in 1891. From this results that one can distinguish between three main types of argumentation, each of which is closely connected with the changing way the church sees herself. The first type is based on natural right and operates in a deductive way. The second concentrates on actualizing common principles, whereas the third type restricts social doctrine only to a carismatic practice for the individual case. Complaints about the inefficacy of catholic social teaching never seem to stop. If one, however, considers the living testimony of the gospel in a real Community as the central point of this doctrine, one realizes that this is certainly more convincing within a large variety of "Weltanschauungen" than a type of reasoning based on a rationality that is only called to be generally accepted. This must involve a constant self-reform of the church in order not to interfere with her own message. Catholic social teaching should not merely reflect the practice of life. It should be turned into practice in its entirety, so that theoretic findings and knowledge on the one hand and fruitful faith on the other may form an integrated whole.
K1 Johannes Paul II
K1 Leo XIII
K1 Pius XI
K1 John Paul II
K1 Christliche Sozialethik
K1 Gesellschaftsmodell
K1 Christentum
K1 Katholische Kirche
K1 Ethische Argumentation
K1 Sünde/Rechtfertigung
K1 Transfer Theologie-Politik
K1 Enzyklika
K1 Weltverantwortung
K1 CGL-Geschichte/Geschichte der christlichen Gesellschaftslehre
K1 Naturrecht
K1 Social System
K1 Christianity
K1 Catholic Church
K1 ethical argumentation
K1 sin/justification
K1 political dimensions and consequences of theology
K1 Encyclical
K1 Church and the world
K1 history of Christian social teaching
K1 Natural Law