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Christianity and Enlightenment: Two hermeneutical approaches to their relationship
2016
This essay explains how its attitude to the Enlightenment has produced a dichotomy within contemporary Catholicism between a conservatism approach which is hostile to modernity and a political theology assimilating the Enlightenment legacy to express Christian values in social practise.
Some Philosophical Remarks on the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’
2016
In this paper, I aim at interpreting the project of the encyclical as a sort of paradigmatic turn in the way of conceiving Christian faith. At paragraph 49, it is underlined that a “true ecological approach always becomes a social approach” and this implies the need of hearing “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”. In my view, by uniting the two categories of “nature/creation” and “poverty”, the encyclical implicitly builds an ideal bridge between Pope Francis’ paradigmatic turn and that “political turn” invoked by the Catholic theologian J. B. Metz from the end of the sixties through the proposal of a “New Political Theology”. Indeed, the excesses of the neo-liberal paradigm …
Cristianesimo e società post-secolare
2015
Questo volume intende fornire un contributo al dibattito contemporaneo intorno al ruolo pubblico delle religioni. L'analisi si concentra in particolare sul ruolo positivo che il Cristianesimo potrebbe svolgere in quella che Juergen Habermas suggerisce di chiamare società post-secolare.
Religione e razionalità comunicativa. Juergen Habermas e la " Nuova Teologia Politica"
2015
Jürgen Habermas’ recent work is focused on the relationship between reason and faith in what he suggest that we should name post-secular society. Habermas argues that traditional religions such as Christianity can have semantic contents very useful to uphold a moral motivation in order to contrast the instrumental reason of the globalized markets. I will try to show that these recent developments of Habermas’ theories risk to conflict with some elements of his previous approach. As a consequence, I suggest that we carefully look to the critiques that the catholic theologian J. B. Metz made to Habermas’ previous approach. In fact, I argue that Metz’s proposal of a “New Political Theology”, w…