PRANCŪZŲ PERSONALIZMAS APIE KRIKŠČIONYBĖS IR ISTORIJOS SANTYKĮ
French Personalism on the Relation Between Christianity and History

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the attempt of the philosophers of French personalism to re-conceptualise the relation between the Christian religion and history. The main impetus to undertake such an ambitious attempt was the striving of the personalist thinkers to establish the foundation of what they used to call "the modern Christian historical consciousness". In view of these thinkers, the traditional Christian notion of history was "outdated" at least since modern times and it was held to be at least in part responsible for the overwhelming crisis of Western civilisation and the Catholic Church. By analysing the development of the Christian historical conciousness since antiquity till our days, the French personalist philosophers were looking for historical evidence which might have proved that Christianity was able to meet the challenges of modern times successfully and to restore its historical self-consciousness by making use of the latest achievements of the modern historical thinking prevailing in Western societies since the beginning of the 18th century.

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