Love and Truth as Historical Categories in the Encyclical Letter Caritas in veritate

  • Mirosław Kowalczyk The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Keywords: “love and truth”; economy of salvation; history; historical process; globalisation; common good; human person

Abstract

Pope Benedict XVI is a theologian of history even in his encyclical letter Caritas in veritate (2009). This encyclical is on principle social and draws on to St. Augustine and to the pope’s habilitation entitled Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura (München 1959). According to the pope, the main trend of the history of man and mankind is spiritual in which the principal drive and at the same time the most ultimate content is “love in truth” and “truth in love”. They fulfil humankind in the present time and lead to eternity.

Published
2020-07-13
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