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Democratic personalism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: However salutary Dr Pell's criticisms of "secular democracy" may appear (December 2004), the grounding of his perceived alternative--"democratic personalism"--in Papal Encyclicals such as Fides et Ratio will do little to "corner the market", as he puts it.
"Personalism" is a recognised philosophic tradition, taking "persons" as an ontological ultimate, and is outlined in Volume Six of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Primarily a movement emerging in Europe and the USA between the wars, personalism drew proponents from across the religious spectrum--Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and atheist.
I first encountered personalism in education courses at the University of Queensland, where M.V.C. Jeffreys' Glaucon: An Enquiry into the Aims of Education was required reading for Education I students in the early to mid-1960s. Jeffreys' writings on educational theory and practice functioned as an educational voice for personalism, in ...
- The problem with democratic personalism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Happell, Rod January 1, 2005 700+ words
...plans to bring about the changes of democratic personalism. Dr Pell fervently dismisses the...to define though they are) of democratic personalism in order for them to then be legislated...illogical then to ask them to support democratic personalism, Catholic personalism, Catholic...
- JESUIT PRIESTS STRUGGLE AGAINST SOCIAL INJUSTICE CLERICS TARGET PROBLEMS FACING...
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) May 29, 1989 700+ words
...Catholic Church, boast of a 400-year tradition of working for social reforms and service to the poor as updated by the papal encyclicals and papers of the Second Vatican Council. "We are men of faith who are deeply concerned and committed to helping develop...
- Apparitions of the Virgin Mary
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology January 1, 2001 700+ words
...issued the bull defining the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Over the next century, there were to be numerous papal encyclicals on Mary that would culminate in 1950 with Pope Pius XII's definition of the Assumption of Mary (that at the end of her...
- AMERICANS CARE ABOUT WAGE GAP.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 23, 1999 700+ words
...justice have been at the center of Catholic social teachings for over a century. In a series of turn-of-the-century papal encyclicals, the Vatican accepted the legitimacy of labor unions and tried to develop a non-socialist justification for what would...
- Christian groups differ in how they view their obligation to the...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Schaefer, Tom January 8, 1997 700+ words
...biblical mandate. Bridging the two are Roman Catholics, who have taken a multifaceted approach to caring for the poor. Papal encyclicals underscore the necessity of Christian compassion; monastic movements stress a simple lifestyle that is spiritually based...
- Heroic theology.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Straley, Adrian Howsare, Rodney Chapp, Larry Tolleson, T. Dan Oakes, Edward T. Reno, R.R. Cessario, Romanus October 1, 2007 700+ words
...year-old imprimaturs. We do have, of course, the documents of Vatican Council II and an amazing body of profound papal encyclicals, especially those of Pope John Paul II, but these do not amount to a systematic presentation of Catholic theology. It...
- Behind the mitre: the moral leadership crisis in the Canadian Catholic Church.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight June 1, 1996 700+ words
...about free trade and little else, despite the fact that he dresses up his tired and repetitious rhetoric with quotes from papal encyclicals, selective statistics and his one grand achievement, the 1983 publication of the bishops' Ethical Reflections on the...
- Fides et Ratio
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Woodward, Kenneth L. October 26, 1998 700+ words
...contemporary thought. No one expects John Paul himself to be conversant with a discipline he no longer practices. But papal encyclicals are often the work of many hands, and the pope has a whole church full of working philosophers who could have given his...
