About:
Dr. Stephan Kampowski is professor of philosophical anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome. Since 2012 he is also invited professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas (Angelicum), Rome.
Prof. Stephan Kampowski è professore ordinario di Antropologia Filosofica presso il Pontificio Istituto Teologico Giovanni Paolo II per le Scienze del Matrimonio e della Famiglia a Roma. Dal 2012 è anche professore invitato presso la Facoltà di Filosofia della Pontificia Università di San Tommaso (Angelicum), Roma.
Prof. Dr. Stephan Kampowski ist ordentlicher Professor für philosophische Anthropologie am Päpstlichen Theologischen Institut „Johannes Paul II.“ für Ehe- und Familienwissenschaften in Rom. Seit 2012 ist er auch eingeladener Professor an der philosophischen Fakultät der Päpstlichen Universität des Hl. Thomas von Aquin (Angelicum) in Rom.
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The Body and Society: Toward a Eucharistic Transformation
February 3, 2025
“This is my body which is given for you”
(Lk 22:19). Here is the transformation that the Eucharist can work in
society: The Eucharist gives a language to the body, the language of the
gift. The body is a body given and received. As given and received, it
is originally embedded in a community. To accept the gift, to accept
one’s body in its sexual difference, is to accept one’s origin and
destiny in the context of the Church and society.
The
Eucharist offers a hermeneutics that reads the body in the light of the
gift, and inasmuch as it is the sacrament of the new and everlasting
covenant, it reads the gift in the light of the covenant. The covenant,
in turn, is the foundation of every society, human, ecclesial, or
divine: in fact, the Latin societas literally refers to the community of those who are allies: socii.
In
other words, the Eucharist tells us that body, gift, and covenant
belong to the same semantic field. In what follows, we will examine more
closely how a hermeneutics of the body in the light of the gift and in
the light of the covenant provides a renewed way of understanding the
relationship between men and women and the relationship between the
generations, which are the relationships upon which a society depends
and by which it is constituted as society, whether it wants it or not,
whether it admits it or not.
Power and Authority—Gleanings from Hannah Arendt
December 7, 2024
In this essay we will explore the complex relationship between power and authority, drawing on the thought of Hannah Arendt. We will begin by examining the common suspicion of power, often seen as corrupting, and contrast it with Arendt’s nuanced distinctions between power, strength, authority, violence, and expertise. Arendt argues that power is not an attribute of an individual, but a capacity that arises among people when they unite as equals for a common purpose. Authority, in turn, is a relationship between superior and subordinate, rooted in a shared commitment to a foundational event and a tradition that communicates this event to the present.
Contact:
Prof. Stephan Kampowski
Pontificio Istituto Teologico Giovanni Paolo II per le Scienze del Matrimonio e della Famiglia
Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, 4
00184 Roma
Italia
kampowski(at)istitutogp2.it
+39 06 698 95 698