Philippe Saint-Germain, General Delegate of the Foundation for Political Service, writes about the recent book by Thierry Boutet:" The Engagement Christians in Politics - Doctrine, challenges and strategy "published by Editions Privat, in March 2007, 220 pages, 15 € ...
This book is a collaboration of elected officials at all levels and extensive consultation of correspondents of the Foundation of Political Service. Thirty thousand of them, citizens in many and varied commitments were sought to enrich a collective reflection on the elections of 2007.
Commitment of Christians in politics is not a theoretical essay. It is the fruit of a collective experience, and it will manifest. For there is born the problem posed by the interpretation of recent teaching of the popes over the objection of conscience and political presence of the Christian minority.
For two thousand years, Christians are invited to "live in the world without being of the world."
Commitment of Christians in politics is not a theoretical essay. It is the fruit of a collective experience, and it will manifest. For there is born the problem posed by the interpretation of recent teaching of the popes over the objection of conscience and political presence of the Christian minority.
For two thousand years, Christians are invited to "live in the world without being of the world."
The original membership has never been easy. They have all known: the persecution and domination, violence and peace. The autonomy of the political order that the Church has always claimed not to spare his followers the greatest weaknesses: the gender confusion, intolerance, compromise. To a large extent, the history of political ideas is the history of the conflict between the temporal and spiritual power.
We are now at the end of an era. The West has put an end to sectarian regimes, and the company itself is no longer Christian. Secularism turns into secularism. Moral relativism is no longer a threat is a reality. Since the erasure of the Church in public life, the state is out of his area of expertise. He has arrogated to itself the function exorbitant to say the good and moral evil, true and false history, and define standards of behavior "correct."
In 2002, Cardinal Ratzinger signed a doctrinal note requested and approved by Pope John Paul II about the commitment and participation of Catholics in political life. In the great tradition of the Magisterium, the teaching of the Church took into account these res novae - these "new things "- Forcing Christians to deepen their sense of mission to renew their presence in the world. "The current issues unfold in a complex entanglement, which is incommensurate with the themes of past centuries," wrote the cardinal.
With this document, and in line with the encyclical Evangelium Vitae (1995), the Church invites Christians to put themselves in a situation of conscientious objection policy. The questioning of the fundamental rights of human beings called opposition "without compromise". However, this objection in principle does not provide for action. On the contrary. "Catholics have the right and duty to intervene in this flood. "Picking up the thread of
the history of ideas, Thierry Boutet demonstrates that the deep gap that exists between the dominant thought and teaching of the Church is not inevitable.
So what? First learn the lessons of centuries of intellectual and practical wisdom gained by the Christians. Then take the measure of social and cultural effects of reversal of values which we assist to rethink the commitment of Christians in the city and define the contours of a new strategy of political action. In new situation, new paths.
tracks that this essay explores make it an excellent textbook of Christian commitment in line with the teaching of the popes. The youngest will find a good introduction to political thought to construct their judgments, and why not direct their lives serving the common good. A timely opportunity to cooperate with the purification of faith and reason which Benedict XVI invites all men of goodwill.
We are now at the end of an era. The West has put an end to sectarian regimes, and the company itself is no longer Christian. Secularism turns into secularism. Moral relativism is no longer a threat is a reality. Since the erasure of the Church in public life, the state is out of his area of expertise. He has arrogated to itself the function exorbitant to say the good and moral evil, true and false history, and define standards of behavior "correct."
In 2002, Cardinal Ratzinger signed a doctrinal note requested and approved by Pope John Paul II about the commitment and participation of Catholics in political life. In the great tradition of the Magisterium, the teaching of the Church took into account these res novae - these "new things "- Forcing Christians to deepen their sense of mission to renew their presence in the world. "The current issues unfold in a complex entanglement, which is incommensurate with the themes of past centuries," wrote the cardinal.
With this document, and in line with the encyclical Evangelium Vitae (1995), the Church invites Christians to put themselves in a situation of conscientious objection policy. The questioning of the fundamental rights of human beings called opposition "without compromise". However, this objection in principle does not provide for action. On the contrary. "Catholics have the right and duty to intervene in this flood. "Picking up the thread of
the history of ideas, Thierry Boutet demonstrates that the deep gap that exists between the dominant thought and teaching of the Church is not inevitable.
So what? First learn the lessons of centuries of intellectual and practical wisdom gained by the Christians. Then take the measure of social and cultural effects of reversal of values which we assist to rethink the commitment of Christians in the city and define the contours of a new strategy of political action. In new situation, new paths.
tracks that this essay explores make it an excellent textbook of Christian commitment in line with the teaching of the popes. The youngest will find a good introduction to political thought to construct their judgments, and why not direct their lives serving the common good. A timely opportunity to cooperate with the purification of faith and reason which Benedict XVI invites all men of goodwill.
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