The teaching of Pope Francis can be understood under the paradigm of the «change of age» and under the tension between modernity and post-modernity. Laudato Si’ is an invite to seriously deal with reality, overcoming the theoretical simplifications of modern thought. Pope Francis follows Benedict XVI in proposing a profound revision of rationality: the awareness of the complexity of life, irreducible to theories, is not against the logos, rather it is an attempt to elaborate a new rationality, capable of dealing with the nexus knowledge-experience. Querida Amazonìa – although poorly understood – follows the grammar of this new confrontation with reality. In Fratelli Tutti Francis moves forward in the direction of declining the experience of ‘being-with’ as fraternity, since human relations are never neutral. In the meantime he invites the Church to perceive and embody the continuity between the ecclesial communion and the universal fraternity.
Maier, R. G., Papa Francesco e la post-modernità: una lettura possibile, <<QUADERNI DI DIRITTO E POLITICA ECCLESIASTICA>>, 2021; 24 (2): 285-302. [doi:10.1440/102302] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/217109]
Papa Francesco e la post-modernità: una lettura possibile
Maier, Roberto Giorgio
Primo
Writing – Review & Editing
2021
Abstract
The teaching of Pope Francis can be understood under the paradigm of the «change of age» and under the tension between modernity and post-modernity. Laudato Si’ is an invite to seriously deal with reality, overcoming the theoretical simplifications of modern thought. Pope Francis follows Benedict XVI in proposing a profound revision of rationality: the awareness of the complexity of life, irreducible to theories, is not against the logos, rather it is an attempt to elaborate a new rationality, capable of dealing with the nexus knowledge-experience. Querida Amazonìa – although poorly understood – follows the grammar of this new confrontation with reality. In Fratelli Tutti Francis moves forward in the direction of declining the experience of ‘being-with’ as fraternity, since human relations are never neutral. In the meantime he invites the Church to perceive and embody the continuity between the ecclesial communion and the universal fraternity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.