Professional paper
Is there Christian West and what it ojjers to the countries in transition?
Špiro Marasović
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
The author, with this text, tries to answer on question: is there
Christian West and what it offers to the countries in transition?
As he, in the first part, defined notion "Christian West" by
classical synthesis of Greak philosophy, Roman law and Christian
belief, and affirms how such synthesis does not exist - that is to say
that there is no more "Christian West" - the author, in the second part of this essey, talks about fundamental characters of Western
Christianity. Because, if there is no Christian West, there is Western
Christianity. The main characteristic of such Western Christianity, he
sees in dialectical tension: faithful-heretical, ecclesiastical-individual,
political-privately and vividly-declarative. That such West offers to the countries in transition, according the author, are standards on the
fields of work and earning, human rights, relation between the state
and society, legal state and similar.
Keywords
West; Christianity; capitalism; standards
Hrčak ID:
51391
URI
Publication date:
21.12.1998.
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