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[[File:Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg|thumb|280px|Plato (left) and Aristotle in Raphael's 1509 fresco, The School of Athens]] | [[File:Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg|thumb|280px|Plato (left) and Aristotle in Raphael's 1509 fresco, The School of Athens]] | ||
[[File:V&A - Raphael, St Paul Preaching in Athens (1515).jpg|thumb|280px|[[wikipedia:Saint Paul|Saint Paul]] delivering the ''Areopagus Sermon'' in [[wikipedia:Athens|Athens]], by [[wikipedia:Raphael|Raphael]], 1515.]] | [[File:V&A - Raphael, St Paul Preaching in Athens (1515).jpg|thumb|280px|[[wikipedia:Saint Paul|Saint Paul]] delivering the ''Areopagus Sermon'' in [[wikipedia:Athens|Athens]], by [[wikipedia:Raphael|Raphael]], 1515.]] | ||
[[File:Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg|thumb|280px|Sermon on the Mount by Carl Bloch (1877)]] | [[File:Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg|thumb|280px|Sermon on the Mount by Carl Bloch (1877)]] | ||
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=== Roots in the Gospel and the New Testament writings === | === Roots in the Gospel and the New Testament writings === | ||
[[wikipedia:Jesus|Jesus of Nazareth]] compared himself to a sower of seeds when he proclaimed the [[wikipedia:Parable of the Sower]] to the crowds of people listening to Him. | [[wikipedia:Jesus|Jesus of Nazareth]] compared himself to a sower of seeds when he proclaimed the [[wikipedia:Parable of the Sower|Parable of the Sower]] to the crowds of people listening to Him. | ||
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=== Magisterial Teachings of the Catholic Church === | === Magisterial Teachings of the Catholic Church === | ||
The Doctrine of the Seeds of the Word interpreted as truths of the Gospel being spread throughout human culture is also present in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. The Decree on Missionary Activity ''Ad Gentes'' affirms: | The Doctrine of the Seeds of the Word interpreted as truths of the Gospel being spread throughout human culture is also present in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. The Decree on Missionary Activity ''[[wikipedia:Ad Gentes|Ad Gentes]]'' affirms: | ||
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|text= In order that they may be able to bear more fruitful witness to Christ, let [Christians] ... acknowledge themselves to be members of the group of men among whom they live; let them share in cultural and social life by the various undertakings and enterprises of human living; let them be familiar with their national and religious traditions; let them gladly and reverently lay bare the '''seeds of the Word''' which lie hidden among their fellows. | |||
|author=Second Vatican Council | |||
|title=[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19651207_ad-gentes_en.html Ad Gentes, Ch. II, art. 1, n. 11] | |||
}} | |||
Similarly the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ''[[wikipedia:Lumen Gentium|Lumen Gentium]]'' states: | |||
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|text= Whatever good or truth is found amongst [those men who have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God] is looked upon by the Church as a '''preparation for the Gospel'''. | |||
|author=Second Vatican Council | |||
|title=[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html Lumen Gentium, n. 16] | |||
}} | |||
The Declaration on non Christian religions, ''[[wikipedia:Nostra Aetate|Nostra Aetate]]'', uses the simile of a ray of light to express the same concept: | |||
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|text= From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things and over the events of human history; at times some indeed have come to the recognition of a Supreme Being, or even of a Father. This perception and recognition penetrates their lives with a profound religious sense. ... The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a '''ray of that Truth''' which enlightens all men. | |||
|author=Second Vatican Council | |||
|title=[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html Nostra Aetate n. 2] | |||
}} | |||
In the years following the Second Vatican Council, the metaphor ''Seeds of the Word'' and the theme ''Praeparatio evangelica'' were also used by the Popes. | |||
[[wikipedia:Pope Paul VI|Pope Paul VI]], in the apostolic Exhortation on evangelization, states: | |||
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|text=[Non-christian religions] are all impregnated with innumerable "'''seeds of the Word'''" and can constitute a true "'''preparation for the Gospel'''", to quote a felicitous term used by the Second Vatican Council and borrowed from Eusebius of Caesarea. | |||
|author=Pope Paul VI | |||
|title=[[wikipedia:Evangelii nuntiandi|Evangelii nuntiandi]], n. 53 | |||
}} | |||
[[wikipedia:Pope John Paul II|Pope John Paul II]], in his first encyclical ''[[wikipedia:Redemptor Hominis|Redemptor Hominis]]'', writes: | |||
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|text= The Fathers of the Church rightly saw in the various religions as it were so many reflections of the one truth, "'''seeds of the Word'''", attesting that, though the routes taken may be different, there is but a single goal to which is directed the deepest aspiration of the human spirit as expressed in its quest for God and also in its quest, through its tending towards God, for the full dimension of its humanity, or in other words for the full meaning of human life. | |||
|author=[[wikipedia:Pope John Paul II|Pope John Paul II]] | |||
|title=[[wikipedia:Redemptor Hominis|Redemptor Hominis]], n. 11 | |||
}} | |||
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church, quoting from ''[[wikipedia:Lumen Gentium|Lumen Gentium]]'', states: | |||
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|text= The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a '''preparation for the Gospel''' and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life." | |||
|title=[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM CCC n. 843] | |||
}} | |||
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