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Kryzys duchowy we współczesnym świecie jako problem religijno-moralny
Spiritual Crisis in the Modern World as a Moral and Religious Problem

Author(s): Tadeusz Borutka
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego (TNFS)

Summary/Abstract: The question of spirituality is a very broad and multifaceted concept. In Christian understand- ing spirituality has both personal and social dimensions. It marks man's relationship with God, ex- pressing itself in a specific attitude to life throughout the history of the relationship of mankind with its Creator. The crisis emerges primarily in questioning fundamental values and principles. Consequently there is no longer room in our social life for objective truth, moral, ideological or religious values. Skepticism dominates over rationality. What's more, proponents of this paradigm announce a depar- ture, in social life, from traditional symbols, ethical criteria and patterns of behavior in favor of cultural pluralism, social and axiological differentiation and individual subjectivism. This leads undoubtedly to secularism whose effects are most clearly seen in the moral and re- ligious life of man. These effects become increasingly dangerous because of the inevitable advance of the process of globalization. Although globalization is not a direct symptom of spiritual crisis, but a consequence of the development of civilization, yet it can be disturbed by spiritual crisis. Currently we observe the advance of processes distorting globalization.

  • Issue Year: 23/2006
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 181-194
  • Page Count: 14