Again gabrindio.blogspot.com Gabriel Nance makes available to English-speaking readers, the interesting emerging thought in Latin American theology.
Today is the turn of the theologian and writer Ed René Kivitz, whose post in kivitzenespanol.blogspot.com , leave it to your account. Thanks Gabriel!.
Gloria Dei, homo vivens. Ed René
Kivitz
Atheism is a phenomenon of modernity. It was from the Enlightenment that made the distinction between faith and science, which worked to the rise of religious and secular camps. Modernity excluded God as a hypothesis to explain the universe and normalize social life. While religion explains the world with metaphysical claims sustained by faith, secularization uses the scientific method that shows the facts, against the arguments made there. What science can not prove it can not be imposed as a paradigm for social life, faith is the subject of individual and private.
Copernicus and Galileo started the collapse of theological explanations of the physical world. Karl Marx condemned religion as the opium of the people and an instrument of social alienation. Friedrich Nietzsche denounced the faith in God as an impediment to the development of authentic humanity. Sigmund Freud said the search for God as a manifestation of a rejection of maturity, an option for the childishness that insists on staying under the care of a God who is more like an over-protective father.
They all had in common the concern to emancipate human beings from scientific ignorance, oppression social, existential cowardice, psychological immaturity. His words denied God, but God said his intention with all the letters. As Queruga clarifies, atheism of modernity can be understood not as the denial of the divine, but as the affirmation of the human. Throw Modern
backfired. The "death of God" killed the man and the universe emptied of meaning, direction and meaning. And then came the liquid modernity (Bauman), when we already know that the human is not enough, science and technology are not sufficient, ideologies without supplement of soul and reason does not cover the whole of reality: "There more mysteries between heaven and earth than our vain philosophy dreams "Shakespeare decreed.
Here is the chance of rescuing religion, or rather of Christianity (the large bank convicted inmates of modernity). Now is the time to show that the dream of modern Christianity is made in the adult. Only from the faith and relationship with the transcendent, beyond the bounds of reason, human beings develop their full humanity. Christianity also wants the emergence of new man, or as St. Irenaeus of Lyons said in the second century: Gloria Dei, homo vivens and the glory of God is the man in the prime of his life.
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