10-31-2012, 01:08 PM
Oh and one more question:
Why is it that everyone is so up in arms about addressing the "real world" context of these documents? I am confused by this. We can't read these texts in a vacuum since they are responding at once to each other and to the social/political circumstances of the world around them. A document like Dignitatis Humanae seems to be a very secularly minded work - one that addresses a specific context. Is it wrong to read it within that context? Why?
Why is it that everyone is so up in arms about addressing the "real world" context of these documents? I am confused by this. We can't read these texts in a vacuum since they are responding at once to each other and to the social/political circumstances of the world around them. A document like Dignitatis Humanae seems to be a very secularly minded work - one that addresses a specific context. Is it wrong to read it within that context? Why?