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- Title
La recepción de la encíclica «Humanae vitae» en las revistas teológicas del ámbito alemán.
- Authors
JUZA, Ludwig
- Abstract
This paper analyses the reception of the encyclical Humanae vitae -published in 1968- in the theological journals in the German-speaking world. it deals in particular with the period 1968-1980, although the bibliography mentions all publications up to 2006. The work attempts to analyse the publications, to sistematize them and provide a theological outline to explain the resistance to and the negative reaction to the document, especially in the early decades. It also includes a comprehensive analysis of the previous debate on birth control from 1958 until 1968, which had a strong influence. The second part of the paper presents the studies on the subject which appeared in the 15 most important journals. These are presented chronologically. There is also a systematic exposition of th3ese publications following their relation to the fundamental topics mentioned in the Encyclical Humanae vitae and sexual morality. In two chapters the arguments of the two lines of criticism of Humanae vitae are summarized: first those related to the authority of the encyclical, and second the reasons for the criticisms made of the moral judgement. Summing up: there was no rational and serious reception of the document, but one which viewed it only from a partial perspective. The paper explains that an important factor in this are the discussions previous to the publishing of the Encyclical: Especially (1) that the reception of the encyclical seems to be merely an extension of that debate and (2) the problems and shortcomings of this debate: (a) a morality of a physicalist type, which tends to identify the genus moris with the genus naturae of acts and therefore not from an ethical angle, and (b) attempts to overcome the physicalist standpoint within a renewed moral theology, and in 1965 led the authors to a more subtle from of physicism and also gave rise to a dualistic anthropology. (3) A widespread view of Humanae vitae which reproached the document from a biological approach and its «rejection of the artificial» versus the natural, which too, has its origin in the physicalist bias.
- Subjects
HUMANAE Vitae (Papal encyclical); EVANGELIUM Vitae (Papal encyclical); GERMAN periodicals; THEOLOGY periodicals; ACADEMIC dissertations
- Publication
Excerpta et Dissertationibus in Sacra Theologia, 2010, Vol 56, p157
- ISSN
0214-6827
- Publication type
Article