Review article

Modern Youth: The Conscious oj Sinfulness

Valentina Mandarić ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb

Abstract

Socio-cultural environment has an important role with the young
in their formation of the sense of identitv and acceptance of basic
values. This article deals with basic features of spiritual and cultural
scope that shapes life experience of the young, with the stress on
overemphasized subjectivism, affective, intellectual and spiritual
nomadic existence, consumerism, hedonism and the wrong idea of
freedom, whose impact is the strongest. The young grow up in ethically neutral society, marked as a whole by moral insecurity and decreased subjective responsibility. Based on recent socio-religious researches among the young, the author shows that due to social differentiation, pluralism, globalisation, moral relativism, the features of Christian morality are less and less recognizable, and vague understanding of sin in their behaviour is more and more pronounced. On the one hand in the life of a young person permissibleness and the ethics of an easy excuse prevail, particularly in sex matters, while on the other hand the sensibility for "social sins" strengthens. In the finishing part of the article the author supplies a few pastoral guidelines to serve as guidance for education of the young on Christian morality, i.e. towards developing the necessary sensitivity to a sin.

Keywords

the young; socio-cultural environment; a sin; Christian morality; morality education

Hrčak ID:

39024

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/39024

Publication date:

21.12.2001.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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