A Textual Analysis of John Paul II’s Teaching on Evolution

• Authors: Chaberek Michał
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author considers John Paul II’s treatment of the topic of evolution in order to retrieve its full content. He starts with an analysis of the Pope’s 1996 Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, especially addressing the problem of the meaning of the words that “the theory of evolution . . . [is] more than a hypothesis,” and the problem of hominization. Then, he explores papal statements from 1985 and 1986. Finally, he concludes that John Paul II’s teaching on evolution appears as fragmentary and ambiguous and, as such, requires greater precision and further development, especially for the sake of the Catholic theology of creation.

Keywords

EN

John Paul II; evolution; theory of evolution; evolutionism

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 231-247

Dates

published

2019-06-30

Contributors

author

Chaberek Michał

• Polish Dominican Province, Poland

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Identifiers

ISSN

2577-0314

ISSN

2300-0066

DOI

10.26385/SG.080211