Catholic Education, Faith and Authority

Authors

  • Giuseppe Mari Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/SPI.2017.5.009

Keywords

Authority, Catholic education, Faith, Freedom, Obedience, Second Vatican Council

Abstract

The text aims to show that authority and obedience are essential within Catholic education. In fact, Faith is “obedience” to the Truth as says the Second Vatican Council and the Truth is endowed with “authority” because God Himself is embodied in Jesus Christ. It is necessary to stress that – according to the Christian faith – this dependence upon God is not a kind of slavery but rather a loving relationship to the Father which sets humans free. This happens because man has an original dignity coming from his creation “in God’s image”. Catholic education must make people able to practice self-dominion (through the experience of authority) in order to choose only what is good so as to obey to the truth of human identity. 

Author Biography

Giuseppe Mari, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano

Degree in Philosophy at the University of Padua and Licence in Theology at theCatholic Faculty of Lugano (CH). Full professor of Pedagogy al the Catholic University of Milan; contract lecturer of Pedagogy at the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of Milan and at the Salesian University Institute of Venice.Scientific interests: pedagogy, philosophy of education, philosophy, metaphysics,theology of education, theology, anthropology, ethics. The most important publications: Razionalità metafisica e pensare pedagogico (Metaphysical rationality and pedagogical thinking, 1998), Pedagogia cristiana come pedagogia dell’essere (Christian pedagogy as pedagogy of the being, 2001), Pedagogia in prospettiva aristotelica (Pedagogy in Aristotelian perspective, 2007), Comportamento e apprendimento di maschi e femmine a scuola (Behavior and way of learning of boys and girls at school, editor: 2012), Educazione come sfida della libertà (Education as the challenge of freedom, 2013), Educare la persona (Educating the person, editor: 2013), Scuola e sfida educativa (School and educational challenge, 2014), La differenza maschio-femmina (The male-female difference, editor: 2016), Matrimonio perché? (Why the marriage?, editor: in press).

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Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana

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Published

2018-03-25

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MARI, Giuseppe. Catholic Education, Faith and Authority. Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana. Online. 25 March 2018. Vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 213-230. [Accessed 19 December 2025]. DOI 10.12775/SPI.2017.5.009.

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Vol. 20 No. 5 (2017): Educational Authority of the Church at the Crossroads of Socio-Cultural Changes

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Articles and Dissertations

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