Abstract
In Milan in the 1950s, Archbishop Montini was confronted with the complex dynamics of a fully industrial society, with the tensions of the labor world, with the prospects of an economy that seemed to promise satisfaction beyond the primary needs of individuals, at the price of a disengagement from the experience of faith and traditional religious life. A new "profane humanism" made man "the term of himself and of all things," placing him "in the place of God" and making him disremember the "religious sense" to which instead the new pastor of the Ambrosian diocese strived to call him back upon, to help illuminate the dynamics of the economy, labor, fatigue, and of those responsible for the governance of enterprises, who were not to hide behind the rules of the economy, as a means of defending individual or corporate interests. For the Archbishop, it was more appropriate for the common good to meet the economic one, thereby advancing it "as a factor of moral and social progress".
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The economic world |
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Original language | Italian |
Title of host publication | Montini. Arcivescovo di Milano |
Editors | L. Bressan, L. Maffeis |
Pages | 423-452 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Milan
- Milano
- Montini
- anni Cinquanta
- economia
- economy
- impresa
- industria
- industry