A Theological Response to Secularism as Public Policy

IF 0.2 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Patrick Giddy
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Abstract

Secular public policy comes in two basic versions, namely the Anglo-Saxon and the Francophone versions, roughly reflecting the two versions of the Christian religion—the Protestant and the Catholic respectively—which the public body seeks to put to one side. To the extent that these correlations do hold, a theological interrogation is called for. Such interrogation can focus on what is a constitutive element of democracy, and overlooked in both cases of secularity, namely the value of solidarity. But the enactment of solidarity is a secular religious expression, beyond any ‘closed immanence’ that might be thought to characterize the public space. In recognizing this, the Christian churches are ethically bound to move to a major reformulation of their basic doctrines and secular society to rethink its displacement of religion.
作为公共政策的世俗主义的神学回应
世俗的公共政策有两个基本版本,即盎格鲁-撒克逊版本和法语版本,大致反映了基督教的两个版本——分别是新教和天主教——公共机构试图把它们放在一边。如果这些关联确实成立,就需要进行神学上的质询。这种质疑可以集中在什么是民主的构成要素上,而在世俗的两种情况下,即团结的价值被忽视了。但是,团结的制定是一种世俗的宗教表达,超越了任何可能被认为是公共空间特征的“封闭的内在性”。在认识到这一点后,基督教会在道德上有义务对其基本教义和世俗社会进行重大的重新制定,以重新考虑宗教的取代。
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