Abstract

GODINEZ TERRONES, José de Jesús. Does Politics Build God's Kingdom?. Pap.polit. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp.59-76. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javenana.papo22-1.pcrd.

Jesus brings the Good News, we are all children of God and invites us to work on building his Kingdom. The early Church and the contemporary one consider it must start to be built here and now. Two diametrically opposed political visions are presented, Aristotle’s and J. Rawls’s, both seeking with political tools to build a society according to the premises they established. Rawls and Aristotle reflect on ethics and politics from philosophy. In Aristotle the community dimension is part of human nature. Happiness and virtue are the engines of citizen action. In Rawls society is made up of people with very different interests, who, in order to achieve their own ends, carry out a social contract. Compliance with the contract moves citizens to cooperate for a better life. It is politics which structures a society. Therefore, building the Kingdom requires use of the political tools. Believing in Jesus is building and structuring a society that departs from the premise that the human being is a child of God and from the need to create the social conditions to enable his/her development as such.

Keywords : The Kingdom of God; building the Kingdom; politics kingdom of God; politics Church; Being human son of God; equality of the human condition.

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