Comments on: Creative Fidelity? http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2006/01/24/creative-fidelity/ Now This Is The Real World! Where Theology and Real Life Meet. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:24:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Hierothee http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2006/01/24/creative-fidelity/#comment-685 Hierothee Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:49:17 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2006/01/24/creative-fidelity/#comment-685 Gabriel Marcel spoke of "creative fidelity" long ago. He had a very deep, existentialist meaning for the expression. The Jesuits have vulgarized it. I will say this, though: the consumerist saturated countries of the so-called Global North do not, by their very nature, encourage vocations. However, unlike what the Jesuits have come to think in their official channels, the solution to that problem is not to seek the implementation of a violent, Marxian redistribution of wealth whose end result is to drive everyone but the heads of the state into a situation of poverty... Gabriel Marcel spoke of “creative fidelity” long ago. He had a very deep, existentialist meaning for the expression. The Jesuits have vulgarized it. I will say this, though: the consumerist saturated countries of the so-called Global North do not, by their very nature, encourage vocations.

However, unlike what the Jesuits have come to think in their official channels, the solution to that problem is not to seek the implementation of a violent, Marxian redistribution of wealth whose end result is to drive everyone but the heads of the state into a situation of poverty…

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