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Normatywna infrastruktura demokracji. Perspektywa teologiczna i społeczna
Normative Infrastructure of Democracy. Theological and Social Perspective

Author(s): Wiesław Łużyński, Wioletta Szymczak
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Theology and Religion
Published by: Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne, Kuria Metropolitalna Gdańska
Keywords: democracy;Christianity; eunomia; civil society; reason and faith;

Summary/Abstract: The condition for democracy to exist is the return to the great moral tradition of Christianity which has influenced the culture, European nations and countries of other continents for centuries. The depositary of the tradition which originates from Christianity but belongs to the moral culture of mankind is, among others, the Catholic Church, which recognizes the autonomy of the temporal order, including the political one. The Church plays a “corrective” role for democracy and political reality, which is based on purifying the reason so that it constantly returns to its potential and can interpret the “grammar” of moral norms contained in nature.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 245-261
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish