Review article
“Veluti si Deus daretur”. Contribution to the Debate on European Oblivion of Christianity
Boris Vulić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3517-2502
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, University of Osijek
Abstract
Croatian membership in the European Union is a new opportunity to examine the discussions on connections between Christianity and Europe. As our contribution to these discussions, we analyze in the article the views of Marcello Pera regarding the place of Christianity in contemporary liberalism and in united Europe, and in confrontation with relativism and its practice of multiculturalism. At the same time it becomes clear that the ideas of contemporary liberalism and united Europe are not devoted to their original premises, which leads to oblivion of Christianity and to actual disunity of Europe. Europe cannot be united without its soul, i.e. without its identity which is conceptually and historically shaped by Christianity. In that sense, one can see the closeness of thoughts of agnostic Pera and Pope Benedict XVI.
Keywords
Marcello Pera; Christianity; liberalism; European identity; united Europe; relativism; multiculturalism
Hrčak ID:
127459
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Publication date:
26.9.2014.
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