A veteran philosophy professor, Hittinger has lectured and published extensively on the thought of Pope John Paul. John Paul II are deeply intertwined - to pursue one is to discover the other,” says institute director John Hittinger, Ph.D. “The story of Poland and the story of St. It has kept its identity in spite of partitions and foreign occupations by relying on its culture.” The Houston program (which is not related to the John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C.) takes its inspiration from something Pope John Paul said: “I am the son of a nation which its neighbors have condemned to death several times but which has survived and remained itself. John Paul II Institute at Houston’s University of St. Perpetuating and propagating his heritage while situating it in the indispensable context of Polish history and culture are the twofold mission of a new project: the St. One thinks, for instance, of the Wednesday audience addresses in which he set out a new, much discussed “theology of the body,” as well as the many expositions of his distinctive personalism.īorn in 1920 and elected pope 43 years ago this month, Pope John Paul died in 2005 and was canonized in 2014.
Partly his intellectual stature reflects the time he spent in the 1950s and 1960s as a member of the philosophy faculty at Poland’s University of Lublin, an era when, one commentator remarks, the Lublin philosophers were considered to be “among the most creative anywhere.”Īnd in part it reflects not just the remarkable volume of his output as pope - 14 encyclicals as well as literally hundreds of other important documents - but also its highly original contents. What is certain, though, is that Karol Wojtyla was an original thinker who made important and lasting contributions to the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Pope John Paul II was the most intellectually gifted occupant of the See of Peter ever, but inasmuch as the line of popes stretches back two millennia and includes some known to history only by their names, there is no realistic way of verifying that.
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