Salesian Pontifical University

About: Salesian Pontifical University is a education organization based out in Rome, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Human rights & Context (language use). The organization has 65 authors who have published 79 publications receiving 560 citations.

Apostolic consciousness of Don Bosco. A hermeneutical-phenomenological approach to his spirituality

Abstract: The term ‘spirituality’ is gaining popularity with a wide range of meanings that refer to both religious and secular aspects of life1. If Christian spirituality was once seen as intrinsically bound to monastic life, the growth and proliferation of religious congregations and secular institutes engaged in active apostolate today, have highlighted the need of integrating apostolic action and spiritual life. From the perspective of monastic spirituality, apostolic action was at times regarded as a danger to spiritual life leading to activism and dispersion. Even when apostolic action was held in positive regard, it was considered as something parallel to spiritual life or a means to perfection2. The dualism of contemplation and action points to other underlying dualisms such as sacred and profane, consecration and mission, interior experience of the divine (love for God) and exterior action in favour of the human (love for man). A closer look at the life of Christ, the apostles, and the saints of active apostolic life, suggests that there is an inseparable bond between the spiritual and the apostolic dimensions of Christian living. With expressions such as “ecstasy of life and action” (St. Francis de Sales), “acting passively” (St. Vincent de Paul), “give me souls, take away the rest” (St. John Bosco), some saints tried to express the mystical transformation experienced by them in their apostolic life and action3. In the contemporary context, the emergence and the progressive configuration of ‘spiritual theology’ as a distinct branch has brought into focus ‘God-experience’, ‘religious experience’ or ‘spiritual experience’ as the core of spirituality4.

Inclusion as a prism: Meanings and perspectives of a foray into the SBN OPAC catalogue.

Abstract: Il termine “inclusione” sul piano interpretativo e descrittivo dei fenomeni sociali si offre con una pluralita di significati e di caratteristiche che lo identificano, distinguendolo da altri fenomeni descrittivi dell’umano. Allo scopo di produrre uno stato dell’arte e di cogliere i macro ambiti in cui il termine viene utilizzato, l’articolo propone un’analisi sulla sua presenza nella pubblicistica italiana attraverso l’interrogazione dello strumento On-line Public Access Catalog del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale. Focus dell’analisi e il periodo dal 1999 al 2019.Dall’analisi delle occorrenze sono desumibili macrocatergorie a cui i titoli delle opere considerati sono stati ricondotti. Ne emerge un netto slittamento sul versante educativo che alimenta di certo i saperi disciplinari pedagogici.

Les fondements métaphysiques des cosmo-théosophies africaines: une lecture à partir des textes

Abstract: Cette etude examine les fondements metaphysiques de la pensee africaine classique et traditionnelle. Elle s’appuie en particulier sur une hermeneutique de textes «cosmo-theosophiques» egyptiens, dogon, fang, ciluba. Les questions traitees a partir de l’etude des textes sont les suivantes: l’ontogenese ou l’origine des choses, l’existence, l’essence et le mouvement, l’union et la parente des elements, la diversite et la distinction des etants. Il ressort de l’analyse que les cosmo-theosophies africaines se fondent sur une metaphysique qu’on pourrait qualifier de «realisme significationnel».

Francisco de Vitoria on the “Just War”: Brief Notes and Remarks

Abstract: This contribution presents some notes on the theory of the law of war according to Francisco de Vitoria, an author who continues to generate interest and who is still the subject of various studies and several interpretations. The classical doctrine on the subject of war law addresses two fundamental questions: when is it permitted to make war? (jus ad bellum); what is permitted during war? (jus in bello). After some contextual notes, this chapter focuses on the development of Vitoria’s perspective on these two questions, especially in his relectiones De Indis and De iure belli, considering above all his thought and his interpretation of the “injuria” according to the older law of war, and not taking directly into account the important and complementary issue of the “theology of conscience” of our Master. Vitoria’s just war doctrine deals in fact with the relationship between “medieval” and “modern” and shows how this Spanish theologian is still current even in respect of new issues we face today.