Inscrutabili Dei consilio

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Inscrutabili Dei consilio (“By God's inexplicable counsel”; On the evil in society) is Pope Leo XIII's inaugural encyclical . and was published April 21, 1878 .

Approximation

With this encyclical a new era of history began in the Catholic Church. It opened up new perspectives in dealing with social trends and access to the Catholic Church. She advocates reconciliation between the Catholic Church and modern society, a rethinking of the Vatican guidelines began. After the political and intellectual stagnation, Leo XIII tried. now about a timely connection with the modern world.

Evil in society

Unchanged, it describes the “evil in our society”, the encyclical warns against undesirable social developments and draws the world to the attention of the changed situation after the revolutions. He denounces some developments as an evil that have arisen through the human race and some errors.

The church fathers

He confirms once again the Church Fathers, St. Augustine (345-430) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), and points to their existing, still valid teachings. At the same time he refers to the missionary neo-Homist scholasticism and calls for missionary work to be promoted again.

literature

  • The large personal lexicon on world history , (here: Augustin and Thomas von Aquin), volumes A – L and L – Z, Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund, 1983, ISBN 3-88379-018-4
  • Georg Schweiger / Manfred Heim, Small Lexicon of the Popes . (here: Pope Leo XIII.), Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2005, ISBN 3-406-51134-1

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