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Ecotheology before and after the encyclical letter Laudato si’
Abstract
The article maintains that the encyclical letter Laudato si’ formulates a vision of the Catholic systematic ecotheology and a sort of ‘paradigm’ for practicing it. The encyclical as a document of the highest teaching authority in the Church sets and defines the directions, the issues, the research area and the way of thinking about ecological issues in the Catholic theology. In order to more fully show the novelty of the document of Pope Francis, first a brief review of the state of the previous ecotheological reflection of the Church’s Magisterium was made. Then, in the following sections, the most important features of Francis’s vision of ecotheology and the ecotheological paradigm in theology were characterised. These are: the role of ecological problems integrating theology, coupling with Catholic social science, the sapiential nature of ecotheology, the transdisciplinary nature of ecotheological reflection, the close bond between levels of global and local theological reflection.
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ecotheology ; Magisterium of the Church ; Encyclical letter Laudato si’ ; ecology ekoteologia ; Magisterium Kościoła ; Encyklika Laudato si’ ; ekologia
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