Published: 2017-11-08

The Problem of Secularization in the Protestant and Catholic Theology

Alfons Nossol
Studia Oecumenica
Section: Problematyka ewangelicka – aspekty współczesne
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/SOe/17/2017/17-26

Abstract

Based on the views of selected evangelical (F. Gogarten, D. Bonhoeffer) and Catholic (H. Fries, J.B. Metz) theologians, the author analyzes the phenomenon of secularization. He points to its double face, distinguishing the secularisation that is a consequence of the Christian faith, which recognizes the autonomy of history and culture against the Church, from secularism as an ideology rejecting the transcendent dimension of reality and absolutizing atheism. The article also formulates postulates for the Christian faith, which must preserve the critical-prophetic function against secularization, and by knowing of the phenomena of the finality of the world and human beings, oppose the intra-world absolutism.

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Nossol, A. (2017). The Problem of Secularization in the Protestant and Catholic Theology. Studia Oecumenica, 17, 17–26. https://doi.org/10.25167/SOe/17/2017/17-26
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