Ein „Zweites Konfessionelles Zeitalter“?

Kretschmann, Carsten; Pahl, Henning

doi:10.1524/hzhz.2003.276.jg.369

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“…As a consequence of constant aggressive attitudes towards the Catholic Church between 1789 and 1815, which seriously shook its activity and social role, European Catholicism in Europe after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 increasingly took shape as a tenacious populist and ultramontanist resistance to liberal and secular Europe (Heilbronner 2006, 236). Therefore, there is also the opinion that nineteenth-century Europe can be referred to as the "second confessional age" (Kretschmann 2003;Heilbronner 2006, 236). If the word revival is a dynamic expression of this attitude, the organized laity is certainly an important component of this "new confessionalization".…”

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Musa,

Šestak

2024

Disput. philos. (Online)

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The centuries–old model of the Church as a community of lay people and clerics who inspire and guide them was entering a functional crisis. In the era of revolutions and liberalism, the laity found itself in a new, contradictory position: at the same time, they are believers loyal to the Church and citizens loyal to secular society. Looking for a way out of the crisis, the Church relied on the democratic capacity of the laity, who promoted Christian values with their social presence, but also fought for the Church’s political rights. The organized Catholic laity had a specific role: to form, culturally and morally, the lay classes. The prehistory of the creation of the Catholic lay movement (Catholic Action) gives insights into the complexity of societies in the second half of the 19th, and the beginning of the 20th century, but also the high level of inventiveness of both the laity and the hierarchy in activating the laity, which will turn out to be an epoch–making success of the Church of the 20th century.

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confidence: 99%