The social dimension of Evangelization in Evangelii Gaudium and the discernment of charity

Authors

  • Alex Villas Boas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19176/rct.v22i84.21636

Keywords:

Pope Francis, Magisterial Theology, Option for the poors, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the Chapter IV of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium by the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, from the Ignatian thought structure. As such, how the means of thinking the issue of option for the poor is linked to the discernment of charity, as the way of being and proceeding in Jesuit tradition, according to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Author Biography

Alex Villas Boas

Pós-doutorando em Teologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro eProfessor do Departamento de Teologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.

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No. 84 (2014): JUL/DEZ - ANO XXII

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