The Missing Person in Catholic Spirituality

• Authors: Thomas A. Michaud
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Peter Redpath and Gabriel Marcel warn that the West is engulfed in a crisis. From their various philosophical perspectives, they identify the source of the crisis as a distortion of traditional Christian metaphysics of the human person as a free individual capable of pursuing truth and entering into relations of community with others. The distortion is caused by an abstract humanism that rightly denounces individualism, but as an alternative promotes a socialistic collectivism. This essay argues that this distortion is further causing the emergence of a collectivist spirituality which loses the individual, free human person. This spirituality is shown to be particularly manifest in various Catholic approaches to socioeconomics and environmentalism.

Keywords

EN

Peter Redpath; Gabriel Marcel; West; crisis; Christianity; metaphysics; person; society; humanism; individualism; collectivism; spirituality; culture; socioeconomics; environmentalism

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 163-177

Dates

published

2016-03-30

Contributors

author

Thomas A. Michaud

• West Liberty University, WV, USA

Notes

EN

Guest Editor of the Issue: Piotr Jaroszyński

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066