Written on the talk: "CHRISTIAN FAITH AND POLITICAL COMMITMENT", shared in the power of Cs. Social UNLZ on 04/28/1911 by the evangelical pastor, journalist and teacher, Dominic Ferrari.
Christian faith Assurance Company of Jesus that death does not interrupt
political action Search serving the common good of society
Christian faith was born in Easter Easter and remains among the religious and theological emphasis Society experiences a historical development as the Church , or rather, the churches. From being a persecuted minority and illegal (criminal conspiracy) for three hundred years, Christianity becomes the state under the Roman Emperor Constantine I and almost all his successors (except Julian), and when it disappears defeated by other powers, their religion survives and adapts to the new political and ideological especially under the influence of Greco-Roman and Oriental philosophies. This stay allows you to not only survive, but represent a guarantee of continuity of social habits, which was used by the various authorities for over a thousand years when it would, especially since the emergence of Islam and its arrival in Europe in a social and political body called Christianity (to which we might call the first draft of the global world.)
For the year 1100 divided the world more than doubles with the schism of East and West, Rome and Byzantium reproduced.
The world order was simple and indisputable: God in heaven and their representatives on Earth , The Pope in Rome (Byzantium), The Emperor at its headquarters.
(The modus vivendi with Islam was such that sometimes the Pope made jailer and executioner of the caliphs in prison maintaining dynastic or political opponents by a hefty rent, and taking away their lives when his landlord told him to).
But that world, perfect for enjoying it, would be shaken from the most different ways. The truths on which it was built began to stand trial. Since long ago, especially in Italy, known intellectuals were insufficient margins Church marked for research and sought ways to break free from scholastic authority, to return to the values \u200b\u200band aesthetics of classical antiquity to exercise its right to freedom, as Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), who was probably the first to use the word to refer to the new humanist movement. He was the author of Dialogue dignity man, and Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), founder of philology for his study of the Latin poets, and his proposal of a new grammar. Perhaps his best known achievement was his discovery, based on philological evidence of the falsity of the Donation of Constantine medieval document allegedly written by the emperor, and which gave the territories of Italy central to the care of Roman pope.
Other trips attract the attention of restless medieval, who unknowingly were giving birth to a new time, we now know as the modern era.
boats began to catch up with destinations beyond the horizon hitherto marked the limits of the planet. Although it was not the first European to reach beyond the West known Columbus began in 1492 exposure to new cultures, new cultures, new religions. Of course not adhere to the readings of the "meeting of cultures." Rather, a collision , where one party owns the cavalry and guns, no less, and where his style includes the looting, destruction, rape ... all in the name of religious and ideological superiority.
A restless German blacksmith, Gutenberg , developed around 1430 movable type printing, which allows the circulation of books in quantities that make it available to the economy of many readers works previously only held by people or institutions that might have their own scribes. As we know, among the first of these works is the Bible.
complete the task of Christians who were claiming the right to free access to the Holy Scriptures and an intelligent reading is not limited to repeat the explanations of the doctors of old church, the friar Martin Luther proposed in 1516 to discuss the biblical basis upon which traditions and doctrines held Roman church practices.
beyond even what could suspect their protagonists, these and many other initiatives marked the end of thousand years of ideological and institutional construction of the Christian church. Over time there would be no king or emperor on his throne, and the Pope would disappear as temporal power and, although reluctantly, would have to talk to a world that no longer recognize your property (Treaty of Torrecillas, 1494).
1959 would have come to accept Church read the signs of the times and in the person of John XXIII convene a council to put up (aggiornamiento) a position to dialogue with the world, from a pastoral function that recognizes the dignity of every human being.
travel This review institutional churches, first place Roman Catholic, raises the question, what happened in the meantime with the faith of the church, according to our proposed title for this talk? My answer is that the Christian faith was the wind that pushed the boat of the church beyond the limits of their ruling classes, always willing to negotiate with the temporal power to maintain and increase the privileges to which that church Constantine had been used, numbing the prophetic spirit and relegating Jesus to the role of a heavenly king who reigns but does not govern. The Christian faith is, in this context, the communion with the living Christ to be a personal relationship than the individual to become a community of faith, the Church appurtenant to and committed to the human community.
POLITICAL ACTION -search service for the common good of society
The review so shallow that we have made the place of the church institution the history of societies that have been happening, makes clear the familiarity with the most varied forms of political power, and how their choices generally agreed with the ruling classes while owning the means of production and the repression of the forces of change at work in each society. And this has been the conduct in that part of the Church heir to the imperial forms that survive in the papacy and the Roman Curia, as the forces of reform when they become part of the power. Calvin's style as inspiration for the Council of Geneva, as Luther's position urging the men who supported him to crush the uprising of the peasants in their territories and the eastern church leaders seeking a modus vivendi with hostile regimes faith, but ready to tolerate even institutions as guardians of their cultural treasures ... all of them are and have been factors of power and therefore active agents of political action at all times.
But, in proposing this issue to the invitation to this meeting with the student community just wanted to define the field with this simple definition, inspired by one of the clearest passages of the New Testament, chapter 13 Charter to the Romans, and its parallel in the Revelation of John, also Chapter 13.
Since we do not propose Bible study (in any case, count me out if they ever have to) summarize its contents, as they represent two positions always present in the thinking of the churches.
While the state sees Revelation as the Beast (Leviathan, Hobbes would say in the seventeenth century) that threatens human life and not love facing the people's living message Jesus, Paul's letter to the judge considers as a servant of God as to ensure the common good, with a purposeful action and a repressive power to achieve that end.
course, the first that comes to mind is that both views are not contradictory, if not complementary. The state is at a time, or potentially, the ultimate factor to enhance the quality of life of a population, or the most powerful enemy of human progress - and increasingly we are assuming, for the destruction of the sources of life that provides nature: air, earth, water.
exclusive visions seem to leave us few options: either the Christian reserves the role of martyr to a murderous state, or in political action and its impact on the progress of the state the most appropriate ways to give the principles of their faith as part of a pluralistic society, solidarity, fair and compassionate.
churches who see reality as a dichotomy between "world" and "people of God" directing their educational work and training, especially its youth, warning of the danger of apostasy and betrayal of faith , for anyone who is "dirty hands" in their negotiated political action, its claim to construct an ethics without God, atheist ideology in order (although not consistent've seen that attitude when it comes to what is gain advantages and privileges for religious institutions through the political action).
Who, by contrast, believe that the "world" is the field of action of God and the recipient of your love by sending Jesus Christ, found in fidelity to the Word and on a mission to bring the Good News to every creature, which can implement the accompanying Christian lifestyle to those who, without sharing our confession of faith, are proposed for ideological reasons humane goals, which Christian roots are found in the mandates and the lifestyle of Jesus.
course there will always be nuances in these positions. There are those who maintain their abstinence from political participation, they feel that is characteristic of Christians pray for their authorities, and accompanied by voting for parties that guarantee freedom of conscience and of worship.
And there are those who, guided by the Gospel, awaken to a vocation for political participation, including an option in favor with the relativism of all human action and the inevitable trial and error. In this case, the policy belongs to the world of human autonomy, will field some with resignation as a result of modern world pluralistic, and others held as a result of a process of growing maturity of a creature equipped by their Creator for freedom.
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