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Social sin is emerging as a new category in the hamartology of the last 30 years. The search for an exact definition of this concept cannot be carried out simply, and its results are modest. The understanding of structural sin takes place in the context of an image of the human being who understands man as an ethically capable person in relation to his sociality and speaks of him as such. Social sin must be distinguished from collective guilt and linked to social misery. Social sin is seen as a structural rejection of a responsibility for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a moral-theological encounter with the issue of suffering, there is necessary to make a distinction within suffering. A distinction is made between pain and misery and the moral role of man. Liberation Theology dealt with the situation of contextual misery. This theology offers new possibilities for analyzing suffering from the perspective of the kingdom of God and identifying resources to combat it. The points of view of liberation theology caused dynamic discussions and arguments in society and the Church: initially they were partially rejected, later, however, accepted. This issue of social misery is also the focus of moral theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transformative processes in the field of social structures foreground have people as subjects, who act on a personal level, while structures of human action are treated indirectly on a secondary level as objects to be transformed. In a first part of this article the author presents the personal dimension of Christian engagement with the duty to acquire new mentalities. Next, there is presented the community dimension of social involvement in order to change the structures in different spaces of moral action. The third part shows the social engagement both in one’s own space and in the action spaces of others. A greater efficiency in order to transform the structures can be achieved through coordinated programs at the inter-systemic but also inter-structural level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the theological-ethical point of view, we can begin by asserting that it is possible to transform the social structures wounded by sin for a positive purpose. However, that process takes place in complicated conditions of relations between people and the social edifice. In the first part, there are described two historical experiences regarding transformation: the communist revolution and the Church positions in social fields. Then, after these two points, the author outlined the model of a unitary transformation of social structures. Without a concrete specification, this article has in the background the situation of the Romanian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study that is focussed on the conversion from the social sin and on the transformation of the social structures affected by sin must take into account not only the strictly religious and ecclesial field, but also the phenomena in socialcommunity life. According to the way in which the paradigm of the change of values in the society is interpreted and to the consequences that result from it on the realization and organization of life on a personal and social level, in this paper at first it is described a mostly optimistic thesis. In a second step, it is presented a thesis with rather pessimistic tendencies. Finally, a realistic thesis is analyzed, which emphasizes the ambivalence of changing values and highlights the significance of the synthesis of values for a good direction of life in modern society [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of repentance cannot be a human effort to achieve salvation considering the relationship between the kingdom of God and the Christian and ecclesiastical testimony of faith, hope and love. Rather, it is made possible by the undeserved offer of salvation from God's reign, which Christians and the faith communities can experience in the world through the lived testimony of faith, hope and love. The promotion of Christian action in the world, which in its individual and social dimensions has to be shaped more intensively than before, can create a climate of action in which the effort and constant renewal of human life are the prerequisites for progress of the metanoia process. Conveying understanding of the world from the gift of faith, offering future perspectives of the world from the power of hope and realizing the unity of the world in the testimony of love are elements that open up opportunities for social metanoia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Der Prozess der Entstehung und Entwicklung der ethischen Kompetenz begleitet auf dem Lebensweg die gesamte Existenz des Menschen. Darin sind unterschiedliche Etappen zu sehen und zu klären. Hier sind diverse Niveaus der moralischen Skala zu differenzieren und als solche für das Verständnis der heranwachsenden menschlichen Person zugänglich zu machen. Die Humanwissenschaften bieten zahlreiche Modelle und Methoden für die Analyse der moralischen Ebenen innerhalb der menschlichen Entwicklungen. Besonders moralpsychologische und sozialtheoretische Einsichten im Kontext der Sozialisations-Forschung sind unentbehrliche, hilfreiche Arbeitsinstrumente für die Erhellung der theologisch-ethischen Kompetenz des Menschen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Frage nach der moralischen Kompetenz bezieht sich nicht nur auf das Wissen und Wollen hinsichtlich eines sittlichen Aktes, sondern ausdrücklich auch auf das konkrete Können der moralischen Fähigkeit des Menschen. So ist davon auszugehen, dass die sittliche Fähigkeit der menschlichen Personen im Bereich der sozialen Metanoia ihre allgemeine Kompetenz im Sittlichen impliziert. Die moralische Kompetenz wird nicht angeboren, sondern sie wird durch Vermitteln und Lehren erworben, wobei zwei fundamentale Aspekte innerhalb einer moralischen Entwicklung hervorzuheben sind: Der heran-wachsende Mensch wird in seiner Sittlichkeit durch die soziale Mit- und Umwelt bestimmt, gleichzeitig bestimmt er selbst diesen Prozess durch personale Partizipation an der moralischen Entfaltung seiner eigenen Anlagen. In diesem Sinne soll im vorliegenden Artikel die Rede vom im Sittlichen sozial bestimmten und bestimmenden Menschen sein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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