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The Secularization of Christianity in Postmodernity. Challenges and opportunities in a new context

Authors

PORCEL MORENO, MANUEL

External publication

No

Means

Pensamiento

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

Publication date

01/09/2024

ISI

001383070800012

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-85213420251

Abstract

This paper intends to show how the nihilism that underlies the different ways in which postmodern secularization presents not only leads to the denuclearization of the religious precisely by emptying its specific contents, but also relegates all religious experience to the private sphere of the individual conscience. This nihilistic context of postmodernity would impose the time of religion without religion, which consists of living apparently as if we were religious subjects when, in reality, we are not. Undoubtedly, this new postmodern horizon poses a challenge for Christianity. For this reason, we will try to indicate the three major challenges that Christianity must face, so that the nihilistic logic of postmodern secularization does not end up infecting the logic of the religious as well, and to glimpse what promising opportunities are presented to Christianity today, to think about its own essence and to show its praxis founded on charity in this time in which we live.

Keywords

Christianity; Post-Christianity; Nihilism; Secularization; Postmodernity

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