El catolicismo y el deber fundamental del individuo y de la sociedad de “civilizarse”: civilización y cristianismo en los escritos de Mariano Soler
In 1875 Mariano Soler returned to Montevideo, after having been ordained priest in Rome and having obtained the doctorates in theology and canon law from the Gregorian University. He became a reference for young Uruguayan Catholics gathered in the Catholic Club (1875)...
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| description | In 1875 Mariano Soler returned to Montevideo, after having been ordained priest in Rome and having obtained the doctorates in theology and canon law from the Gregorian University. He became a reference for young Uruguayan Catholics gathered in the Catholic Club (1875), led the foundation of the first Free or Catholic University (1878) and the Catholic Circle of Workers of Montevideo (1885). Close to Leo XIII, he was part of the group of clergymen who “recreated” the relations between Rome and Latin America. Third Bishop (1890-1897) and first Archbishop of Montevideo (since 1897), he developed a great activity as a writer and propagandist.The relationship between “Christianity and civilization” is a recurrent subject in his speeches and writings, between 1875 and 1908, the year of his death. Conceptual constants can be detected which associate the “great work of religious and social regeneration” with the alliance between Catholic Church and “civilization”. Christianity was and had been the creator of “civilization” and its weakening in the Uruguayan society would only imply corruption and barbarism. Subtle mutations are also appreciated, related to the recovery of republican principles and of material and scientific progress, associated with “civilization”. In that sense, civilization is understood as a process of “harmonic and progressive improvement of the physical, moral and intellectual faculties of man.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8df33253e3ab432b87f7b8ef0dc7fe152024-02-14T16:52:43ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522023-06-0110.4000/nuevomundo.92510El catolicismo y el deber fundamental del individuo y de la sociedad de “civilizarse”: civilización y cristianismo en los escritos de Mariano SolerSusana MonrealIn 1875 Mariano Soler returned to Montevideo, after having been ordained priest in Rome and having obtained the doctorates in theology and canon law from the Gregorian University. He became a reference for young Uruguayan Catholics gathered in the Catholic Club (1875), led the foundation of the first Free or Catholic University (1878) and the Catholic Circle of Workers of Montevideo (1885). Close to Leo XIII, he was part of the group of clergymen who “recreated” the relations between Rome and Latin America. Third Bishop (1890-1897) and first Archbishop of Montevideo (since 1897), he developed a great activity as a writer and propagandist.The relationship between “Christianity and civilization” is a recurrent subject in his speeches and writings, between 1875 and 1908, the year of his death. Conceptual constants can be detected which associate the “great work of religious and social regeneration” with the alliance between Catholic Church and “civilization”. Christianity was and had been the creator of “civilization” and its weakening in the Uruguayan society would only imply corruption and barbarism. Subtle mutations are also appreciated, related to the recovery of republican principles and of material and scientific progress, associated with “civilization”. In that sense, civilization is understood as a process of “harmonic and progressive improvement of the physical, moral and intellectual faculties of man.”https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/92510progressChristianityUruguaycivilizationMariano Soler |
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| title | El catolicismo y el deber fundamental del individuo y de la sociedad de “civilizarse”: civilización y cristianismo en los escritos de Mariano Soler |
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| topic | progress Christianity Uruguay civilization Mariano Soler |
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