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2018 | 27 | 1 | 99-114

Article title

Świeckość państwa w nauczaniu Josepha Ratzingera-Benedykta XVI

Content

Title variants

EN
State secularity in the teaching of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
This article attempts to offer several keys to understand the relation and reference between religious values and temporal social order and its political dimension. The Pope, on the basis of the autonomy of temporary realities, recognizes a positive role of religion in public life. In a secular state presence of religion in the public sphere becomes not only necessary for the state to remain secular (not laic), but it is an invaluable resource in civil society. Catholicism accepts the secularism of the state and politics, but it does not agree with the reduction of Christianity to the private sphere, since there is no connection between the two. The principle of secularism may thus mean that the state is secular, but one should not attempt to make it laic, that is try to exclude the public role of religion in a democratic state.

Year

Volume

27

Issue

1

Pages

99-114

Physical description

Contributors

  • Instytut Teologiczny, Łódź

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
1231-1634

YADDA identifier

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