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ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS MYSTICAL TRANSFORMATION AND ETHICAL COMMITMENTAuthor: MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ EMILIO. Year: 2005. University: PONTIFICIA COMILLAS [ www.upcomillas.es]. Place of defense: INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE CIENCIAS MORALES. Place of preparation: INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE CIENCIAS MORALES.. Summary: The figure of St. John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes, 1542-1591) is relatively well known inside and outside the bounds of the Church. The density mystique of his writings has made him one of the most spiritual authors recognized. Its poetic quality has made him one of the authors Catholics more estudidos from other slopes of culture. However, the possible contributions of John of the Cross for Christian morality is a field barely roturado, this thesis aims to show how the doctrine of how an author spiritual well-recognized illuminates and enriches its wealth from mystical theological ethics cristina. Not interested in determining the moral here that will be created by his writings, but the way in which the process of mystical union that they studied and described guides the Christian moral life and theological reflection on the same view in the light of the spirit of Vatican II . We have studied in this work novelty involved the injection of St John the mystical experience in the field of ethics, theological reflection and, likewise, is the way in which the spiritual life, as St. John of the Cross, is the source and breath of a moral life renewed. The ética-mística of St. John of the Cross, from the base of his vision antropológica-humanista, presenting himself as an ethics whispered by the Espíruto, which leads the person to live the life of the Trinity, as befits his being image of God. The mystical experience and the ethical requirement not follow parallel paths or different in the case of our author, but as flanks of life cristina was imbrican redimensionándose in a sense genuinely evangelical.
CHRISTIANITY AND MODERNITY IN TRAGEDY: THE TRAGEDY PASCALIANA AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS.Summary: Our proposal was the main aim to demonstrate the presence of the tragedy in thinking pascaliano, especially in its epistemological feature, namely respect to you degrees of knowledge to you which, according to Pascal, a man could hope for the world while being sensitive, after sin adámico: knowledge dela reason, the knowledge of the feeling and knowledge that derives from the Christian grace. For this reason we, in the first part of our thesis, a study of the concept and the nature of tragedy, from the point of view of nature and abstract just propedéutica With the second part, because of systematic nature, we build a preparation study of the tragedy at the thought of Pascal. For this reason, we study, first, the Greek tragedy, understood here as a source of inspiration for all forms historic tragedy has assumed, in order to find the foundations of a possible interpretation of Pascal's thinking from that perspective. In the second stage, we analyze the work reputed as the most systematic and expressive about the tragedy at the thought of Pascal, which they are, the texts of Lucien Goldmann, especially Le Dieu cache. To our surprise, we found almost nothing of the tragedy pascaliana in these jobs, especially with regard to the epistemology of the French philosopher, the main focus of our investigation. However, based on ele study of the origin of the Greek tragedy, and on the concept of tragedy that we are building, moving firmly to the third prte of that investigation, due to a collision more autonomous thinking Pascal perspective tráfica. Before coming to the epistemological problem, we approached anthropology theological pascalinaa, understood here as a given substrate to his epistemology. There are all the elements that characterize the tragic, such as exposed in the propedéutica part of this work, both in what it says regarding the human condition as well as with regard to the ontological nature of man, conceived under way by Pascal . We enter, then in the epistemological problem, through, first, the concepts of dogmatism, skepticism and the conflict between these two possibilities cognitive reason, for the purpose of seeing if confirmábamos, again, the presence of tragedy Pascal. We see, then, that skepticism is the element that emphasizes tragic in epistemology pascalina. We went ahead, then the other forms of knowledge more relevant approach to a tragic: the knowledge of the theological sense and knowledge of grace. It was precisely here that we find the most substantial signs of the tragedy as it appears in the thought of Pascal: uncertainty, opportunity, risk, overturning tragic, among others. We finally have succeeded in demonstrating the presence of expressive features of the tragedy in the epistemological and anthropological thought Pascal, in a way that we believe to be more successful so that they atingidas by other historical previous attempts. Finally, we analyze the thought of Pascal terms of their fidelity to the Christian message. We saw there several problems, solve some, but we prefer to leave the matter open for future research.
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