RELG 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jacques Maritain, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Ultramontanism
1 Dec 2016
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Catholic tradition is 50% of global christianity (largest religion in the world) Expansion and colonialism carried catholicism across other lands. Spread of catholicism could have been spread by the political agendas of the colonies, but there were also internal reform movements within catholicism. Eg: jesuits = dedicated to global missions / missionaries. People wanted to bring religious messages and not the culture of europe. Arguing that the role of mission is to engage the cultures being encountered, this just causes friction and alienation if you try to deculturalize the tradition. There"s a tension in this view and approach, the kind of trajectory of colonisation. Around 1650, popes were negative against westphalian powerful nation states. They came back into existence in the early 19th century, but for a while they were pushed aside by the catholic church. Treaties to ensure the freedom of the catholic church. Catholic churches as an array of institutions (faith-based institutions)
