ABSTRACT
The creation theology of Pope John Paul II is clearly different from recent liberation theology, although its aims for peace, justice, and liberty remain the same. By choosing the biblical category of creation as his fundamental metaphor for the social order, Pope John Paul II goes beyond "liberation theology" to something rather deeper and more promising. The task which lies ahead for Catholic theology, therefore, is to give more consideration to subtler conceptions of the person and the community. The Catholic lay person has experienced a tremendous explosion in human creativity during the past two hundred years. Virtually all the innovations and inventions of this sudden historic outburst of creativity spring from democratic capitalist lands. Everybody knows that capitalism has a definite historical meaning as a system, an economic and social system, opposed to "socialism" or "communism". Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
