Post by account_disabled on Feb 15, 2024 10:17:47 GMT
Discernment for the Jesuits means distinguishing between the general principle and the concrete situation. what is known in social sciences as situated thinking. Thinking in a situated way implies avoiding universal formulas and abstract theoretical and ideological models in favor of local specific logics born from the context and the concrete historical reality in which one seeks to act. In this typically Jesuit line some of the most important documents of Francis papacy can be read such as the encyclical Laudato Si and the recent apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum.
Through these texts the current pontiff places the environmental issue at the center of the Churchs Brazil Email List and expands the territories of what is known as the Pontifical Social Magisterium. Although the environmental problem was present in the papacies of Paul VI and John Paul II Francis has assigned it a new centrality and has defined the care of the Common Home as one of the guiding lines of st century Catholicism.
The starting point of Laudato Si is a rereading of the book of Genesis. In the encyclical Francis dedicates several paragraphs to dismantling excessively anthropocentric interpretations in order to propose an alternative hermeneutics in which expressions such as dominate Gen. or cultivate Gen. the earth They move away from notions of exploitation subjugation or conquest. In this sense the pope points out that it is important to read the biblical texts in their context with an appropriate hermeneutics and remember that in reality they invite us to till and care for the garden of the world cf. Gen fifteen.