Christliche Identität im europäischen Kontext
Christian identity in the European context

Summary/Abstract: Under historical, cultural and spiritual aspects, Christianity and the European continent are tightly united. Even though the evolution of Christianity was not even, the multitude of its forms of development permitted a diversity of Christian cultures. However, the tensions, the disunions and the fractions created throughout the time between West and East are very well-known: frequently, for the West, the eastern geographical space is a sort of terra incognitio; and in the conscience of the East there still are repercussion of the historical memories such as the ones of the Islamic robbing, and, afterwards, the communist persecutions. These factors are not favourable to the ecumenical dialogue, and the issue of the ecumenism within modernism was debated in the Second Council of Vatican, which chose a dialogue between religions. Thus, due to this dialogue we can understand that identity claims knowledge of the correct context, which changes, and puts us in front of new challenges suggesting two principles: the return to the sources and the other one is the renovation of these sources in the context of the present.

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