Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.54.2.1
Christian Weltanschauung and Ethics with Romano Guardini
Carmelo Dotolo
; Pontificia Università Urbaniana Roma, Rome, Italy
Abstract
One of the merits of Romano Guardini’s ideas was that he contributed to a better elaboration of the twentieth century theological thinking and its epistemological status; above all in interdisciplinary attention and the logic of dialogue. In that sense, the hermeneutic figure of Weltanschauung seems to be fruitful, with interesting development: it urges theology to think of itself and to behave as an intellectual partner among others, showing the theoretical identity that can be set to the limit of knowledge, in the heart of which there is an understanding of the mystery of the real. From this perspective, religious experience contributes to a different understanding of human condition, opening it to the revelation as a necessary prerequisite for starting a search for some important keys to reading in the interpretation of the world and history. This brings at least a double consequence. The first one is the claim of the revealing structure of reality in which religion appears as a special way of inhabiting the world, in which questions and horizons of existence are shaped. The other one is the indicator of “Christian culture” as a radical and unique perspective of man, the world and history, which on the basis of Easter event becomes the prophecy of meaning in socio-cultural processes.
Keywords
Guardini; Weltunschauung; ethics; theological reflection; religious experience
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221618
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Publication date:
28.6.2019.
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