The Crisis of Western Culture and Secularism

Perszon, Jan

The Crisis of Western Culture and Secularism

dc.contributor.author	Perszon, Jan
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-18T12:09:13Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-18T12:09:13Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	The subject of this article is the crisis of Western culture (Christianity) in terms of its sources and consequences. The author attempts to present the diagnosis of European culture by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. They associate its crisis with the internal weakness of Christianity (the Catholic religion) and the influence of philosophical trends and ideologies with the purpose of creating a “new culture” on the ruins of the old one. Postmodern thought, which not only breaks with the rationalism of the Enlightenment but questions (in the name of individual freedom) the truth and the ability to get to know it, plays a special role in this respect. The anti-Christian narrative adopted by intellectual elites in the West, which in some manifestations becomes an ideology of secularism, is thus a consequence of philosophical assumptions. The author suggests that the popularisation of a model of life according to the principle “as if God did not exist,” i.e. the acceleration of de-Christianisation processes (e.g. in Poland) is significantly related to the development of the so-called new media, especially in the form of virtual reality.
dc.identifier.citation	„Verbum Vitae”, 2024, T. 42, Nr 2, s. 377-400
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/vv.17061
dc.identifier.issn	1644-8561
dc.identifier.issn	2451-280X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7605
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	culture
dc.subject	crisis
dc.subject	Christianity
dc.subject	secularism
dc.subject	Internet
dc.title	The Crisis of Western Culture and Secularism
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article