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CHRISTIANITY AND LlBERALlSM
Jakov Jukić
; Split
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The encounter of Christianity and liberalism begins with the creation
of the modern world, with the Enlightenment movement and the
political act of the French Revolution. Christianity has, in all three
of its forms - as Catholicism, Protestantism and the Orthodox creed
- been confronted in different ways with this great global ideology,
which stands at the source of all social change and phenomena in
the last three centuries. But it was the Catholic Church that had the
most turbu lent relationship with liberalism. At first it had completely
rejected and sternly convicted liberalism. However, in the period of
the Second Vatican Council the Church started taking a more conciliatory
viewpoint. In the third and the most recent of periods, new
signs of intensifying and deepening the conflict between the Catholic
Church and liberalism can be observed, where the latter assumes
the form of postmodernism. In contrast to Catholicism, Protestantism
has from the very beginning found a mutual understanding
with liberalism. Moreover, it became the ideological inspiration and
theoretical justification of liberalist aspirations in the United States
of America and England. As regards the third current of Christianity,
the Orthodox creed has not yet really met with the social and political
fact of liberalism, although one cannot dispute that it often took different
views towards it. Therefore, the discussion between the pro-
-Slavics and the Westerners is more than instructive, but nevertheless,
it remains within the area of ideas and not real social movements.
In postcommunist societies stronger conflicts and more intolerant
disputes have been going on between Christians and liberals,
prompted by specific political and economic circumstances of transition
into a democratic order. It would be fatal if the Christians were
in these circumstances seduced into joining the pre-Council militant
tendencies, more of which are present than would be expected, due
to general social regression. Thus, loyalty to the learning of the second
Vatican Council regarding the modern world is absolutely essential
for the further development of the relationship between Christianity
and liberalism in former communist countries.
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Hrčak ID:
32282
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Datum izdavanja:
1.11.1995.
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