- CHAPTER IV - AN EXAMPLE OF THE TALISMANIC WORD: "DIALOGUE"
- 2. Emotional Irenistic Fermentation
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2. Emotional Irenistic Fermentation
It is necessary to place the irenistic tendency that we have been
analyzing in relation to the several meanings of "dialogue" and
"argument" in its ideological context and proper psychological
setting.22
22 Here we understand the word
"irenicism" not in the sense of a temperate love and true peace , but
in that of a disorderly intemperate love of a peace obtained at any price to
the harm of principles, acquired rights, etc. In short, we refer to an
unauthentic peace. Pius XII, in the Encyclical Humani Generis of August
12, 1950, says of this kind of irenicism: "There is also another
danger, which is graver still since it is hidden under the cloak of virtue.
There are many who, deploring the discord within the human race and the
confusion reigning in souls, are forcefully impelled by an ardent desire to
break the barriers which separate good and honorable men from each other,‑
they embrace an "irenicism" (policy of appeasement) such that,
putting to the side all the questions that divide men, they pretend not only to
join forces against an overwhelming atheism but also to reconcile contrary
opinions even in the dogmatic field... If such persons intended nothing but to
better accommodate, with some renovation, ecclesiastical teaching and its
methods to current needs and conditions, there would be practically no reason
to fear; but some, carried away by imprudent "irenicism," seem to
consider an obstacle to the reestablishment of that fraternal unity precisely
that which is based on the laws and principles established by Christ and the
institutions founded by Him, or that which constitutes the defense and support
of the integrity of the Faith. If all this were to collapse, all things would
become united, indeed, but only for their perdition (Discorsi e
Radiomessagi, vol. XII, p. 488).
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