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Para 68: THE WISDOM OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS

This responsibility for God’s earth means that human beings, endowed with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate...

Para 67: II. THE WISDOM OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS

We are not God. The earth was here before us and it has been given to us. This allows us to respond to the charge that Judaeo-Christian...

Para 66: THE GOSPEL OF CREATION

The creation accounts in the book of Genesis contain, in their own symbolic and narrative language, profound teachings about human...

II. Para 65: THE WISDOM OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS

Without repeating the entire theology of creation, we can ask what the great biblical narratives say about the relationship of human...

Para 64: THE LIGHT OFFERED BY FAITH

Furthermore, although this Encyclical welcomes dialogue with everyone so that together we can seek paths of liberation, I would like from...

Para 62: THE GOSPEL OF CREATION

Why should this document, addressed to all people of good will, include a chapter dealing with the convictions of believers? I am well...

Para 61: A VARIETY OF OPINIONS

On many concrete questions, the Church has no reason to offer a definitive opinion; she knows that honest debate must be encouraged among...

Para 60: A VARIETY OF OPINIONS

Finally, we need to acknowledge that different approaches and lines of thought have emerged regarding this situation and its possible...

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