„The Interest” Manifested for God in the Post-modern Culture Cover Image

„Interesul” pentru Dumnezeu în cultura postmodernităţii
„The Interest” Manifested for God in the Post-modern Culture

Author(s): Teofil Tia
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: faith’s impact; culture; privation of the human life; hegemony,; God’s existence; idolatry; rationality; economical totalitarianis; dissolution of the Christian morals

Summary/Abstract: “The Interest” Manifested for God in the Post-modern Culture. This study, which intentionally has a theoretical structure that seems to be a mixture between the centres of interest set centrifugally from the epicentral theme, is meant to scan “the interest” manifested for God and faith in the Post-modern culture. For this reason, we have shown in broad lines how the contemporary civilisation (which is a product of an amazing technical and cultural evolution of a fairly recent date), the secularisation and the current discredit of the metaphysical research rather than making man happy led to the apparition of an irrational and chaotic humanity. Hence, from the naïve optimism of the various forms of absoluteness Enlightenment, Positivism andMarxism) of the immanent, it has all come to the desperation caused by the exhaustion and the discredit of rationality based on the refusal of transcendence, followed by a paralyzing state of apathy generated by the theoretical nihilism and the moral disinterest that govern in the society which is “the final product” of modernity. To talk about God in such a context becomes from hereon necessary and immediate because the Christian faith knows the way in which to diminish the toxic effects of the tentaclelike extension of the evil throughout history, for this is the resource of a new appeal in order to make man happy and fulfilled by publicly revealing the corrupting presence of the evil within the immanent.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 119-134
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian