Gaudium et Spes: 60 Years Later | JD Flynn
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- JD Flynn, founder and editor at The Pillar, presents the key note at the 2024 DSPT Convocation of the College of Fellows on "The Church in the Modern World...And in These Times." The conversation focused on the history and application of the Vatican II Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes.
The Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes (1965) was a somewhat novel kind of constitution, devoted not to doctrine strictly understood, but to a discernment of what had changed in the world, the great vineyard. It was deemed pastoral to denote our understanding of changeable things for the sake of accomplishing Christ’s great commission to his apostles.
Its purpose (not its end or goal) therefore was open-ended, requiring continual discernment of spiritual, moral, political, cultural, and economic challenges faced by men and women in mundo huius temporis. In their own time, the conciliar fathers considered a wide array of factors influencing the hopes and anxieties of the post-war generation, the animorum appetitiones (desires of the soul) that must be understood in time and place.
Sixty years later, we know in the course of lived experience that these hopes and anxieties, and the social relationships for which they once existed, have profoundly changed. So much so that it is not uncommon for us to think that we are living in a very different time, or a different world, so to speak. The challenges of family life, work, political community, human rights, communications, and perhaps most importantly, technological domination of ordinary community life - indeed, even disbelief in the majesty of both God and his created images are in a new phase.
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14:57 Seeing massive rate of divorce and annulments among Catholics, particular in USA, this saying about "marriage as friendship" fell deaf to my ears.
9:53 Solidarity with unborn anyone?
9:19 Proper interpretation of Gaudium et Spes is so hard to achieve, that I think: why bother? Isn't christian life easier and more fruitful without spending time on document that is easy to misinterpreted and hard to interpreted properly?
10:30 "Christocentric humanism" is a steel bar made from wood. Christ is God and man, you cannot be humanist putting God, ultimately, at the center.