«La città secolare» tra continuità e discontinuità
The author ponders the impact of The Secular City on the new Catholic gen-eration in Italy in the late sixties. Reading Cox’s book helped understand what it meant to continue to believe in modern society. The secular society, as described and analyzed by Cox, in fact, seemed a fitting theological co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2016
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Pages: 45-49 |
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| Summary: | The author ponders the impact of The Secular City on the new Catholic gen-eration in Italy in the late sixties. Reading Cox’s book helped understand what it meant to continue to believe in modern society. The secular society, as described and analyzed by Cox, in fact, seemed a fitting theological complement to Max Weber’s modern society as an iron cage and - in a sharper way - to Walter Benjamin’s capitalism as a religion. The Secular City also strengthened the conviction of the urgency to reform the Catholic Church (Reformkatholizismus). Cox’s intellectual journey - from Secular City to The Future of Faith, by way of Fire from Heaven - was not marked by a clear break. Secularization is not, in fact, for Cox the unavoidable decline of the sacred and of religion or, rather, of the need to believe in God. It is instead the sunset of a historically and culturally specific way -Eurocentric in many ways - of thinking and conveying God. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/Annali_studi_relig_17201605 |