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Christianity in a post-modern way. Weak and post-metaphysical Christianity of Gianni Vattimo
Jure Strujić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9524-2763
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu
Sažetak
Contemporary era has spawned the post-modern philosophical thought which has become the basis for a new approach to religiosity. postmodernism, seeking to relativize all previously unquestioned values, as well as the cognitive and moral principles, has also seriously touched the field of religion, consistently encouraging the creation of new forms of religiosity, based on arbitrary attitudes and subjective estimation of values. in this paper we are trying, through the analysis of G. vattimo’s thought, to point at the attempts to create new religiosity which, in spite of rejecting the fundamental Christian theological theses, still wants to be called Christian. the rejection of firm philosophical, cognitive, moral and even religious principles, and these are the principles of postmodernism, is reflected in vattimo’s theory about the “weak thought” (il pensiero debole). From there arises the idea of “weak Christianity” which just in that “weakness” finds arguments for its survival. “irreligious Christianity”, as vattimo suggests and advocates, should be, liberated from dogmas and authority, attractive to contemporary man. in his philosophical views vattimo is inspired by nietzsche’s nihilism, Heidegger’s thought about the “end of metaphysics” and Girard’s anthropology based on the analysis of violence. vattimo’s understanding of Christianity actually follows the French philosopher J. F. Lyotard who in the post-modern death of “great stories” sees the beginning of new era in which “small stories” will dominate. vattimo holds that european atheism also belongs to “great stories”, and that the age of new religiosity is beginning. His new interpretation of Christianity, liberated from authority, dogmas and aggressive proclamation, and based on the acceptance of “weak” God who “emptied” himself, should establish new european religiosity. vattimo’s attitude of a semi-believer is intriguing, interesting and attractive on the level of shallow approach to religiosity, and therefore deserves serious analysis and sensible answers.
Ključne riječi
Gianni Vattimo; postmodernism; nihilism; “weak thought”
Hrčak ID:
130768
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2014.
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