Found this on Mirror of Justice, a blog about Catholic legal theory. Interesting post referring to Stanley Hauerwas' A Community of Character and refers to this passage:
"The task of the Christian is not to defeat relativism by argument but to witness to a God who requires confrontation. .. The command to witness is not based on the assumption that we are in possession of a universal truth which others must also 'implicitly' possess or have sinfully rejected...the command to be a witness is based on the presupposition that we only come to the truth through the process of being confronted by the truth."
I also was glad to re-read this yet again which was in another post:
"We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person. . . In a global culture driven by excessive individualism, our tradition proclaims that the person is not only sacred but also social. The Catholic tradition teaches that human beings grow and achieve fulfillment in community."
-U.S. Bishops, Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions
No comments:
Post a Comment