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• For Augustine, there can be no true justice in the earthly city because
it is oriented to pride rather than love of God.
• For Augustine, justice is a synonym for love, as one can only give
another their due in a truly public way (as opposed to giving each
their private interest) if we love God first and foremost and so are
able to order one’s own loves in relation to God and others and so
give each their due.
• However, in order to truly love God, and thence love others, we must
be justified in and through Christ as we cannot properly order our
love of God and others without the grace of God. (Being spiritual)
VIII. CRITERIA OR RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR
POLITICAL ACTION
•• First, such action begins with listening to Scripture and the various
others amongst whom one lives in order to discern who is the neighbor to
be loved, and what goods in common need to be pursued.
•• Second, such action is, in the first instance, place based, as distinct
from national or global, visualizing the local and regional as the primary
arenas of faithful Christian action.
• • Fifth, such action connects to and takes seriously the ordinary patterns of family, work, and
civic life as occasions for neighbor love and part of the penumbra of worship.
• • Sixth, such action is not simply humanitarian or pastoral in scope, but seeks to address
broader structural issues.
• • Seventh, such action embodies a generative contradiction rather than either saying “no” or
“yes” to the status quo.
• • Finally, such action does not look, in the first instance, to the state or the market to address
issues of common concern within particular places but to modes of self-organization and mutual
support.
IX. What kind of a Filipino Nation Should we
be? (PCP II Vision)
• This is our vision:
That all may have life (mabigyan ng buhay)
We shall have to create a free nation:
where human dignity and solidarity are respected and promoted:
where moral principles prevail in socio-economic life and structures;
where justice, love and solidarity are the driving force of development.
We shall have to create a sovereign nation;
where every tribe and faith are respected;
where diverse tongues and traditions work together for the good of all; where membership is a call to participation and involvement and leadership a
summon to generous service.
Ours will have to be a people
in harmony with one another
through unity and diversity;
in harmony with creation;
and in harmony with God.
Ours shall be a cevilization of life and life.