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- Title
La recepción de la Encíclica Humanae vitae en el ámbito teológico 50 años después de su publicación.
- Authors
DE LASALA PORTA, Santiago
- Abstract
This thesis studies the reception of the encyclical Humanae vitae among theologians of Germany, Belgium, Spain, the United States, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Italy and other countries, from the moment of its publication until the dawn of its 50th anniversary. The thesis analyzes the main causes of the change in the moral sexual behavior of many Catholic couples, as well as the reasons that led St. Paul VI to write his encyclical. The reactions of the different episcopates throughout the world after the promulgation of this document are presented in a synthetic way, showing how the encyclical was variously received and transmitted to the faithful, and its guidelines followed. One of the most important arguments adduced by some theologians who do not accept the content of Humanae vitae consists in denying the category of «intrinsic evil» and the subsequent adjudication to individual conscience of the function of deciding on what it is good or bad in each concrete situation. A second argument consists in considering that the encyclical does not express an infallible doctrine, which is equivalent to affirming that the teaching contained therein is reformable. In the light of the consequences of these and other arguments studied in the thesis, it is not difficult to discover that not a few theologians -and not a few faithful-have not accepted or fully assimilated, to this day, some of the teachings contained in the encyclical Humanae vitae.
- Subjects
HUMANAE Vitae (Papal encyclical); ADULTERY; SEXUAL ethics; BIRTH control; HUMAN sexuality in Christianity; THEOLOGY; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Excerpta et Dissertationibus in Sacra Theologia, 2021, Vol 70, p385
- ISSN
0214-6827
- Publication type
Article