Catholic Pastoral and Prophetic Responses to a Secularizing Landscape

Q2 Arts and Humanities Verbum Vitae Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI:10.31743/vv.16720
John Sullivan
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The purpose of this article is to offer a retrieval of some major themes in the writings of Ro­mano Guardini and Ivan Illich, two twentieth century Catholic priests who responded to secularization in ways that could be described as both pastoral and prophetic. Guardini tended towards a more pas­toral emphasis, while Illich’s stance was more prophetic. Guardini exemplified a Catholic way to bridge the gap often experienced between faith, life and culture. Illich demonstrated how a Catholic can ad­dress their culture in a way that is both challenging and fertile and does so in penetrating observations about contemporary secular professions and preoccupations. The article has three parts. In part one, I sketch a range of responses to Christianity that have emerged in an increasingly secular culture, as well as the types of response that Christians have made to such a culture. In parts two and three a repre­sentative sample of the writings of Guardini and Illich is drawn on and analysed, together with a range of secondary literature on Guardini and Illich, in order to explain the nature and the role of four key themes (in each case) within their overall outlook. For Guardini, in part two, these are Catholic worldview, lit­urgy, providence and cultural critique. For Illich, in part three, I examine his notion of the mission of the Church, his treatment of schooling, his understanding that modernity is a perversion of Christianity, and his advocacy of friendship as a healing and liberating mode of engaging the world
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天主教牧灵和先知对世俗化景观的回应
罗马诺-瓜尔迪尼和伊万-伊里奇是二十世纪天主教的两位牧师,他们对世俗化的回应方式可以说既是牧灵式的,又是先知式的。瓜尔迪尼更倾向于强调牧灵,而伊里奇的立场则更倾向于预言。瓜尔迪尼以天主教的方式弥合了信仰、生活和文化之间经常出现的鸿沟。伊里奇则展示了天主教徒如何以一种既具有挑战性又富有成效的方式处理其文化问题,并对当代世俗职业和关注点进行了深入观察。文章分为三个部分。在第一部分中,我概述了在日益世俗化的文化中出现的对基督教的一系列反应,以及基督徒对这种文化做出的各种反应。在第二和第三部分中,我参考并分析了瓜尔迪尼和伊里奇的代表性著作样本,以及一系列关于瓜尔迪尼和伊里奇的二手文献,以解释(这两个人的)四个关键主题在其整体观点中的性质和作用。在第二部分中,瓜尔迪尼的主题是天主教世界观、礼仪、天意和文化批判。对于伊利奇,我将在第三部分探讨他的教会使命观、他对学校教育的处理、他对现代性是对基督教的歪曲的理解,以及他对友谊作为一种治愈和解放世界的方式的倡导。
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Verbum Vitae
Verbum Vitae Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
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16 weeks
期刊介绍: Published since 2002, "Verbum Vitae" is issued biannually by the Institute of Biblical Studies of the Faculty of Theology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Each issue of the journal includes scholarly articles dedicated to a specific biblical theme and presented in three sections: (I) Old Testament, (II) New Testament, and (III) Patristics and the Life of the Church. The final "Life of the Church" perspective tries to broaden out each issue''s given topic into its multiple connections and implications, mostly dogmatic, moral, pastoral, liturgical, or sociological. The forth section of the journal always consists of reviews of recently published monographs and collections on biblical themes. Because of the journal''s interdisciplinary character, it seeks to include among the contributors not only biblical scholars but also theologians of various specializations.
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