Open AccessVisit of the Pope to Ukraine as a test for the integrative potential of Christian churches
Author(s) -
Оlgа Nedavnya
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2001.20.1188
Subject(s) - xenophobia , openness to experience , neglect , test (biology) , democracy , state (computer science) , psychology , sociology , social psychology , political science , law , psychiatry , immigration , paleontology , algorithm , politics , computer science , biology
The polemic around the visit to Ukraine of Pope John Paul II served a meaningful test to identify the integrative potential of all the Churches in the state, and in particular their openness or xenophobia, the willingness or the actual refusal to cooperate, the real recognition and cultivation, or the practical neglect of the spiritual components of a democratic society.