Open AccessThe humiliation of Christianity and the crisis of Christian civilization
Author(s) -
Pavlo Pavlenko
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2009.50.2027
Subject(s) - christianity , humiliation , civilization , cult , rationality , western culture , politics , environmental ethics , political science , philosophy , religious studies , sociology , political economy , history , epistemology , law
The global social, political, and cultural disasters of the twentieth century have proven themselves primarily to devalue or deny the deep foundations of Western or European civilization. And since Christianity is considered to be its basic basis, it gave an opportunity to emphasize its crisis, because Christianity, they say, has ceased to meet the demands and problems of modern man with his cult of utilitarian rationality under new conditions.