Context of Pacem in Terris

Thesis

• The reordering of society to bring about peace on Earth can only be done if all areas of this world (individuals, public authorities, national governments, and the world community) are committed to principles of truth, justice, and charity.

Structure

• Introduction (#1-7)• Order Between Men (# 8-45)• Relations between Individuals and Public

Authorities (#46-79)• Relations between States #80-129)• Relationships of men and of Political Communities

within the World Community (#130-145)• Pastoral Exhortations (#146-172)

Three Major Influences

Enlightenment Thinker John Locke

Previous PopePius XII

Medieval Scholastic Thomas Aquinas

What they Contributed

Eternal Law

Natural Law

Human Law

• Common Good• Natural Rights

Summi Pontificatus

What was Going on in the World

• The World in the 1960s• Post World War II world• End of Colonization• Cold War• Civil Rights Movement• Womens’ Movement

Post World War II

• United Nations• Most devastating war in

history• Holocaust• Authoritarian Regimes (Italy,

Spain, Germany, Soviet Union)

Atomic Bomb explosion at Nagasaki

End of Colonization

• More autonomy for many parts of the world

• New countries attempting to define themselves

• Challenging transition

Cold War

• Battle between Soviet Union and America over influence

• Fierce clash of ideologies (Communism vs. Capitalism)

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962• Berlin Wall

Nikita Khrushchev

Civil Rights Movement

• Series of social movements • Civil resistance• Non-violent protest• Civil disobedience• Freedom Rides

Major Biblical Influences in Civil Rights Movement

• Exodus Imagery of deliverance from Captivity

• Martin Luther King’s Memorial• Genesis 37:18-20 • Influence of the Prophetic Age• Psalm 137 (Rivers of Babylon)

Influence of Psalm 137

By the Rivers of Babylon ( with lyrics).mp4

Womens’ Movement

• Second Wave Feminism• Concerned with gender roles in

society• Feminist Mystique, 1993• Women should have more

options than housewife• Connected social and personal

to political• Slogan: “Personal is political”