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- Title
IL VANGELO DELLA PACE CROCE E SPERANZA DEI CRISTIANI.
- Authors
Filippini, Roberto
- Abstract
The article deals with peace as it emerged, theoretically and practically, in Christian history with a painful awareness which is one of the questions where is more readily seen the distance between the Sermon on the Mount and the divergence of the time of the eschatological Kingdom announced as immanent by Jesus of Nazareth. In the course of the centuries Christians did not avoid the piercing contradiction between the invitation to turn the other cheek and love of one's enemies, and the position adopted by the Church by which the use of instruments of violence to resolve human conflicts is justified. The author begins with the teaching of Jesus and its reception in the primitive community, convinced that was a passage from original non-violent pacifism to the doctrine of the just war, because there was an incapacity to find alternative paths to the required defense of the weak and the innocent, and of violated just rights. The great turning point of this topic determined by Vatican Council II is examined, as well as how the successive Magistery received it, although with wavering progress between a trend of abandonment of modern war, alienum a ratione, and the acceptance of armed defense and humanitarian interference. In the second part the author puts forward several proposals to extend a sign and an instrument of the peace given by Christ: a new theology that places the biblical theme of Shalom as the hermeneutic principle and framework of all critical reflection on the faith; a renewed and decisive effort at ecumenical and interreligious dialogue; and finally a more confident and convinced opening to the theory and practices of non-violence.
- Publication
Vivens Homo, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 1, p187
- ISSN
1123-5470
- Publication type
Article