Christian secularity

Abstract

One of the characteristic features of our time is the polarization process that is producing a complete divorce between religion and the 'world', understanding by 'world' the sum-total of realities which pertain to man in his life here below and which confront him, whether he is a believer or not. The polarity of these relations gives rise to many practical tensions and theoretical dilemmas which are much debated in our day, and which ate often resolved by an indifferent or even outright antagonistic attitude towards anything that has to do with religion. It is not simply a matter of decline in religious practices and moral standards, serious as these may be, but of a radical change of mentality in regard to the whole institutional status of religion in society.