We should begin with one of the most important works of Catholic theology written in the twentieth century, Henri de Lubac's Catholicism: Christ and
the Common Destiny of Man.
Henri de Lubac's Catholicism: Christ and
the Common Destiny of Man is another book of public theology in the prophetic mode.
Not exact matches
«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love
of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign
of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart
of God in all the beauty and richness
of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with
men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland»
of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley
of tears»; as they assume, together with
men, a
common responsibility for the
destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive
destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom
of the ineffable Trinity.»
There was in the years from perhaps the seventh century B.C. the beginning
of reflection by non-Brahmins and in particular by
men and women
of the Kshatriya or warrior - ruler caste concerning the great questions
of God, the world, and
man's origin and final
destiny, and Gautama himself was, according to tradition,
of that class, and was not out
of character in seeking the way out
of the round
of rebirth, which by his time had become a matter
of common belief.
The
common life initially rests on the constitutive need for the human beings to be combined to form a community
of similar which is also a community
of destiny, out
of which, as Aristotle wrote it, no
man could exist humanly, nor simply to survive.