Original scientific paper
Postmodern and Theology
Ante Mateljan
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
In this text the key issues of the relation between the postmodern
awareness and Christian theologv are set out. After introductorv
questioning about the state of things, the origins and main guidelines
of the postmodern period are analvsed. "Religion postmodernism" occupies a special position manifesttng itself through a new approach
to the questions about God, man, špirit, awareness, cognition and
religious experience. It is questionable to what extent contemporary
Christian theology is ready for the challenges of postmodern
individualistic and pluralistic religiosiry, but it reveals that the main
issues of the postmodern period are the questions about the point of
life, freedom and future. Theology has been provoked to "seek for its
own foothold" once again in the experience of faith as in the
experience of Jesus Christ. Christian theology is directed to the
person and deed of Jesus from Nazareth, and only through Christ it
can mediate the cognition of truth and the experience of Spirit to the
postmodern man.
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Hrčak ID:
38940
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Publication date:
20.12.2002.
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