Resumen: El pensamiento del teólogo ítalo-alemán Romano Guardini cuenta entre los impulsos más importantes de la renovación teológica y eclesial que se desarrolló en torno al Concilio Vaticano II. ...Como sucede con la obra de todo gran pensador y pensadora, la recepción de sus ideas está condicionada por el tiempo, los lugares y las personas que las acogen e interpretan. En esta recepción -de ya más de 50 años-ha quedado demostrada la riqueza de su pensamiento, pero no se ha advertido respecto del talante crítico de su teología, especialmente en la consideración del fenómeno religioso. Este artículo busca ser un aporte a la recepción de este gran teólogo católico, precisamente destacando la hondura de su reflexión sobre el fenómeno religioso y, en particular, mostrando cómo su pensamiento constituye un aporte significativo para una reflexión crítica de la religión. A partir de una obra madura de Guardini, Religión y revelación, publicada el año 1958, en este artículo se ofrecen algunas categorías fundamentales para comprender el acontecer de la religión, pero también para examinarla críticamente y, así, dar forma a una teología que contribuya a su purificación y renovación.
Resumen: La literatura es una palabra bella, con ritmo y música, pronunciada desde la realidad singular de la existencia. Desde este punto de vista es siempre una “revelación”, un apocalipsis de la ...vida ante el carácter singular y definitivo de la existencia en el mundo. La teología, en diálogo con ella, no puede pretender encerrarse en un lenguaje científico-objetivo al estilo de las ciencias positivas. Según la teología balthasariana la relación entre teología y literatura no surge por la moda de la interdisciplinariedad de los saberes, sino por una necesidad intrínseca de su quehacer debido a la naturaleza de la revelación divina. Dios se ha expresado a sí mismo en una figura bella como es la persona de su Hijo, implicándose en un drama, y utilizando todos los recursos del lenguaje de la carne.
InSaving Faith, David Mislin chronicles the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples. Between 1875 and ...1925, liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same. This reorientation came about as an ever-growing group of Americans found their religious faith under attack on social, intellectual, and political fronts. A new generation of outspoken agnostics assailed the very foundation of belief, while noted intellectuals embraced novel spiritual practices and claimed that Protestant Christianity had outlived its usefulness.
Faced with these grave challenges, Protestant clergy and their allies realized that the successful defense of religion against secularism required a defense ofallreligious traditions. They affirmed the social value-and ultimately the religious truth-of Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. They also came to view doubt and uncertainty as expressions of faith. Ultimately, the reexamination of religious difference paved the way for Protestant elites to reconsider ethnic, racial, and cultural difference. Using the manuscript collections and correspondence of leading American Protestants, as well the institutional records of various churches and religious organizations, Mislin offers insight into the historical constructions of faith and doubt, the interconnected relationship of secularism and pluralism, and the enormous influence of liberal Protestant thought on the political, cultural, and spiritual values of the twentieth-century United States.
Pornography has become increasingly accessible in the United States, and particularly for younger Americans. While some research considers how pornography use affects the sexual and psychological ...health of adolescents and emerging adults, sociologists have given little attention to how viewing pornography may shape young Americans' connection to key social and cultural institutions, like religion. This article examines whether viewing pornography may actually have a secularizing effect, reducing young Americans' personal religiosity over time. To test for this, we use data from three waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion. Fixed-effects regression models show that more frequent pornography viewing diminishes religious service attendance, importance of religious faith, prayer frequency, and perceived closeness to God, while increasing religious doubts. These effects hold regardless of gender. The effects of viewing pornography on importance of faith, closeness to God, and religious doubts are stronger for teenagers compared to emerging adults. In light of the rapidly growing availability and acceptance of pornography for young Americans, our findings suggest that scholars must consider how increasingly pervasive pornography consumption may shape both the religious lives of young adults and also the future landscape of American religion more broadly.
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