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Фундаменталистичке тенденције у енциклици QUANTA CURA
Fundamentalist Tendencies In The Encyclical QUANTA CURA

Author(s): Zlatko Matić
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: fundamentalism; modernism; magisterium; Pius IX; Quanta Cura

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the possibilities of applying categories of fundamentalism to some documents of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. It re-examines the theological assumptions of Pope Pius IX (1846-1878), primarily his encyclical Quanta Cura, which contains the annex Syllabus Errorum, a list of misconceptions of 80 philosophical directions, liberal and communistic ideology, as well as the new social order, which had been formed. The paper proposes a hypothesis that the ideological assumptions of the analyzed document, although not fundamentalist per se, as they did not have a social articulation, can be interpreted as firm, unwavering, and real incitement to fundamentalism. Thus, it directly indicates the universal and current nature of the problem of religious fundamentalism.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 855-876
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian