The article deals with American Personalist Thomist, W. N. Clarke, and his theory of the foundation of metaphysics in interpersonal dialogue. Classical Thomist metaphysics is based on the philosophy of nature. Clarke does not reject this approach, but he prefers his theory as better and more useful. His theory has realist roots and tries to avoid the mistakes that are present, according to him, in Cartesian and Kantian approaches.
The paper is focused on the philosophical analysis of matrimony with respect to its main goals. Firstly, it presents Aristotle's theory of friendship as the basic ethical category for matrimonial interpersonal relationships. Secondly, it shows some remarks of St. Augustine on matrimony from both philosophical and theological points of view. Finally, it deals with several questions of Church law and compares these approaches.
The article deals with new approaches to the theology of original sin. It introduces the readers to basic features of new theories, ie their christological background, deconstruction of Trent dogmas, psychological and sociological issues, the evolutionary view on history and polarity between situationalism and personalism concerning original sin. Then it tries to propose basic criteria for evaluation of various theological theories that were developed in past decades.
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