Open AccessNewman and Strossmayer on the Relationship Between the Church and the State (II)
Author(s) -
Šimo Šokčević,
Tihomir Živić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anafora
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2459-5160
pISSN - 1849-2339
DOI - 10.29162/anafora.v8i1.6
Subject(s) - conscience , state (computer science) , trace (psycholinguistics) , liberalism , comprehension , epistemology , philosophy , environmental ethics , sociology , law , political science , politics , mathematics , linguistics , algorithm
The cooperation between the Catholic Church and the State is a necessity and animperative that was addressed by two important thinkers of the 19th century, JohnHenry Newman and Josip Juraj Strossmayer, and the models that actually trace backto their reflections are existent even nowadays.In the second part of a textological and theological analysis of Newman’s andStrossmayer’s understanding of the relationship between the Church and the State,our objective is to explore how much Newman’s and Strossmayer’s deliberationsmay be useful in the formulation of the bases on which a good relationship betweenthe Catholic Church and the State should be built. We have seen that comprehension and concord are the fundamental imperatives of that relationship, as well as ofthe contemporary models that analyze it. The modern obstacles to this relationshiphave the identical roots, findable in negative liberalism and repaganization.On the trail of Newman and Strossmayer, we conclude that an anthropological reform primarily taking hold of the human heart is necessary today. Therefore, sucha reform has to realize that the life in accordance with one’s own conscience, in thetruth, is more valuable than all the utopian lies and deceptions that formulate thesocioeconomic relations and personal life.