| Volume 6, Number 2, April 2009 |
Liberation Theology and Marxism
by Georges De Schrijver s.j.
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Market Economy and Ethics
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
约瑟夫·拉辛格枢机 |
1. Christian-Marxist Dialogue in China
IN April 2008, Professor Zhang Xian published an article in Chinese Cross Currents: (1) “Reflections on the Introduction of Christianity and Marxism into Modern China.” This article was an eye-opener for me. It initiated me in the Christian-Marxist dialogue that takes place in the People’s Republic of China. It also made me realize that the background of this dialogue is light years apart from the reception of Marxism in Latin American Liberation Theology.
1. Indeed, the specific difficulty with which Professor Xian is confronted is Marxism’s essentially atheistic approach to reality. This atheistic approach appears to pose an irresolvable problem, since atheism hardly squares with Christianity, and vice versa. In spite of this, Professor Xian sees a constructive dialogue between Christianity and Marxism as being possible, as we will see at the end of this section. Meanwhile one must keep in mind that, in Latin America, the encounter with Marxism did not lead to a head-on confrontation with atheism. Years ago, Alistair Kee pointed out that Liberation Theology...[ Read more ] |
ALLOW me to give a cordial welcome—also in the name of the two other protectors, Cardinal Höffner and Cardinal Etchegaray—to all the participants here present for the Symposium on Church and Economy. I am very glad that the cooperation between the Pontifical Council for the Laity, the International Federation of Catholic Universities, the Institute of the German Economy and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, has made possible these world-wide conversations on a question of deep concern for all of us.
The economic inequality between the northern and southern hemispheres of the globe is becoming more and more an inner threat to the cohesion of the human family. The danger for our future from such a threat may be no less real than that proceeding from the weapons arsenals with which the East and the West oppose one another. New exertions must be made to overcome this tension, since all methods employed hitherto have proven themselves inadequate. In fact, the misery in the world has increased...
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Economy, Employment, Education, Ethics
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