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- Title
POSITIVE SECULARISM: FINDING BUILDING STONES FOR A THEORY IN THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPH RATZINGER.
- Authors
Baima, Thomas A.
- Abstract
In this article the Author brings together two apparent opposites -- religion and secular society. This seeming impossibility is achieved by identifying insights in Joseph Ratzinger's writings which provide a theory of a new kind of secularism. Asserting a principle of "non-rigorism", the Author paints a picture of how a highly vigorous religious tradition can exist within and contribute to a robust secular society. He argues that in Ratzinger's views on Church and State we find the idea of a positive secularism in which both religion and society need a reciprocal dependency on each other to bring about a healthy culture.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; sociology; SECULARISM; BENEDICT XVI, Pope, 1927-2022; CHURCH &; state; RELIGION &; state
- Publication
Lateranum, 2013, Vol 79, Issue 3, p675
- ISSN
1010-7215
- Publication type
Article