"Each Creature, Resplendently Transfigured": Development of Teaching in Laudato Si'. (June 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Halloran, Nathan W.
• Is Part Of: Theological studies. Volume 79:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 376
• Page End: 398
• Publication Date: 2018-06
• Subjects: animals -- Thomas Aquinas -- eschatology -- Pope Francis -- Laudato Si' -- New Creation -- nonhuman creation -- Teilhard de Chardin -- Vatican II; Theology -- Periodicals; Periodicals; Periodicals; 230
• DOI: 10.1177/0040563918766690
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-5639

Abstract

Three stages can be traced in the Catholic Church's magisterial teaching on the status of nonhuman creatures in the eschatological New Creation. In this article I ask three questions: which, why, and how: Which creatures are in the new creation, why are they part of the New Creation, and how will they be there? I argue that Laudato Si' gives a new magisterial answer to these three questions and constitutes an important new development in the teaching on New Creation.