Veritatis Splendor After Thirty Years: Exposition and Critique

2025/04/15 by Michael J. Lawler, Todd A. Salzman · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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Abstract

Some thirty years ago, as an antidote to widespread dissent from Catholic sexual teaching among many theologians and faithful, Pope John Paul II published his encyclical Veritatis Splendor . His stated purpose was “to reflect on the whole of the Church’s moral teaching with the precise goal of recalling certain fundamental truths of Catholic doctrine which, in the present circumstances (a ‘new situation’) risk being distorted or denied.” In this essay, we focus on John Paul’s teaching on natural law in Veritatis Splendor and offer several critiques of it.

Discussions

• In v.14.SI1, Michael Lawler & Todd Salzman offer several critiques of Pope John Paul II’s teaching on natural law in Veritatis Splendor. See: "Veritatis Splendor After Thirty Years: Exposition and Cri [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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