Catholic social teaching is full of references to anthropology. For example, one of the recurring themes of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’ is: “There can be no ecology without an adequate anthropology.”
Man cannot understand the meaning of creation, or how to use it well, without understanding himself, including his own purpose and ends. And man cannot understand his own purpose and end without some sense of the God in whose image he was created and for whom he was made.
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