Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Correction of the Teaching on the End of Catholic Marriage

• Authors: Ewa A. Pichola

Title variants

PL

Dietricha von Hildebranda korekta nauczania o celu katolickiego małżeństwa

Abstracts

EN

Dietrich von Hildebrand already at the beginning of the twentieth century published two works which contributed to the pending debate on particular aspects of Catholic marriage. The major concern of authors involved was spectrum of issues regarding love in marriage and the purpose of marriage defined as proles, fides, sacramentum. The aftermaths of that debate, according to interpreters, are reflected in a contemporary teaching on marriage, especially in its point regarding the ends of marriage. In this paper we present to how extend D. von Hildebrand developed the new stance on the purpose of marriage. He decided to speak when noticed that the traditional teaching on marriage contain flaws, or that love is neglected in teaching on marriage. In what follows we expose the following: von Hildebrand's disagreement with Aquinas, novum in von Hildebrand's writings, reception of his thought. Next, on the basis of source materials we point out that von Hildebrand employs the new word „meaning” in explaing the role of love in marriage. We show that there is a question what this word exactly would signify and how to adjust von Hildebrand's vocabulary to the Latin notions in which the teaching on marriage is formulated. In the last part we present how interpreters understand von Hildebrand's reflection. We turn to both, the early reception of his thought and to interpretations offered by contemporary authors. Our final conclusion is that voices who recognize von Hildebrand amongst influential authors on the matter are justified, and have their background in source texts.

Keywords

PL

D. von Hildebrand; cel małżeństwa; potomstwo; miłość; zmiana

EN

D. von Hildebrand; purpose of marriage; offspring; love; correction

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 275-293

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Ewa A. Pichola

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2078943