Memory and Identity

by POPE JOHN PAUL II

• ISBN13: 9780847827619
• ISBN10: 0847827615
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-22
• Publisher: Rizzoli

Summary

In conversations with two Polish philosophy professors, the Pope offers his views on recent history and politics, evil, freedom, democracy, the moral status of modern Europe, and related topics, including the attempt on his life.

Table of Contents

THE LIMIT IMPOSED UPON EVIL	1	(30)
1. MYSTERIUM INIQUITATIS: THE COEXISTENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL	3	(2)
2. IDEOLOGIES OF EVIL	5	(8)
3. THE LIMIT IMPOSED UPON EVIL IN EUROPEAN HISTORY	13	(4)
4. REDEMPTION AS THE DIVINE LIMIT IMPOSED UPON EVIL	17	(6)
5. THE MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION	23	(4)
6. REDEMPTION: VICTORY GIVEN AS A TASK TO MAN	27	(4)
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY	31	(26)
7. TOWARD A JUST USE OF FREEDOM	33	(6)
8. FREEDOM IS FOR LOVE	39	(6)
9. THE LESSONS OF RECENT HISTORY	45	(6)
10. THE MYSTERY OF MERCY	51	(6)
THINKING "MY COUNTRY" (NATIVE LAND-NATION-STATE)	57	(32)
11. ON THE CONCEPT OF PATRIA (NATIVE LAND)	59	(6)
12. PATRIOTISM	65	(4)
13. THE CONCEPT OF NATION	69	(4)
14. HISTORY	73	(6)
15. NATION AND CULTURE	79	(10)
THINKING "EUROPE" (POLAND-EUROPE-CHURCH)	89	(38)
16. EUROPE AS "NATIVE LAND"	91	(10)
17. THE EVANGELIZATION OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE	101	(6)
18. THE POSITIVE FRUITS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT	107	(8)
19. THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH	115	(4)
20. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE	119	(4)
21. EUROPE IN THE CONTEXT OF OTHER CONTINENTS	123	(4)
DEMOCRACY: POSSIBILITIES AND RISKS	127	(30)
22. MODERN DEMOCRACY	129	(8)
23. BACK TO EUROPE?	137	(10)
24. THE MATERNAL MEMORY OF THE CHURCH	147	(6)
25. THE VERTICAL DIMENSION OF EUROPEAN HISTORY	153	(4)
EPILOGUE	157	(12)
26. "SOMEONE MUST HAVE GUIDED THAT BULLET"	159	(10)
NOTES	169