Professional paper
Reflection of Mary Eberstadt about the family as a key factor in spiritual and moral renewal of society
Mislav Kutleša
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Munjin
Abstract
After the introduction, the article talk of American scientist Mary Eberstadt and her thinking about family and marrying in the rejuvenation of society as a whole. Above all, the family is being treated and presented to the family in the face of secularization challenges, mostly based on the book How The West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization. From a sociological and demographic point of view, the relationship between family and family life follows. The second part of the paper deals with the ways of renewal of society through experience of unity, experience of new life, and experience of responsibility. The conclusion is that these are three important experiences of family life, and within them there is an inner link, and they are experiencing in the cancer and the family and God or Christianity as a religion.
Keywords
Mary Eberstadt; marriage; family; birth; community; responsibility; society
Hrčak ID:
202223
URI
Publication date:
20.6.2018.
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