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Work #1200 · Late

Laudato Si'

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)
2015 (May 24) · Italian (with Latin official)
Papal encyclical · Catholic-Thomistic / Catholic environmental social teaching

Pope Francis's 2015 environmental encyclical — the first papal encyclical on ecological-climate questions

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Attribute Laudato Si' (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Variable
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Variable
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Discrete

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Laudato Si'

24 May 2015 promulgation. The timing was deliberate: six months before the December 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP 21).

Space

Laudato Si'

Vatican promulgation; global address. The encyclical is the first major papal teaching document addressed not only to Catholics but explicitly to 'every person living on this planet' (§3).

Matter

Laudato Si'

Six-chapter encyclical (~180 pages). Form is encyclical-magisterial: numbered paragraphs (§§1-246), formal Catholic teaching document.

Observer

Laudato Si'

Mid-papacy Francis. The observer-Pope is the first non-European Pope, the first Jesuit Pope, with Latin-American liberation-theological formation and a distinctive ecological-justice emphasis.

Energy

Laudato Si'

Programmatic-pastoral-political energies. The encyclical is the most concentrated single statement of the Francis papacy's distinctive ecological-social-justice orientation.

Information

Laudato Si'

Single encyclical of six chapters and 246 numbered paragraphs. The 'integral ecology' framework (chapter IV) is the central conceptual structure.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Laudato Si'

Most important religious-philosophical statement on the environmental crisis from any major world religious leader. Shaped the run-up to the December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement; continuously cited in environmental-ethical, religious-environmental, and Catholic-social-teaching scholarship; the 'integral ecology' framework has been continuously productive in subsequent Catholic and ecumenical environmental theology.