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Introduction: The Sacred and the Challenge of Modernity
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MODERN THOUGHT
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2 / 1986 |
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If the modern era begins with a critique of religion, it ends with man's revolt against the moral foundations of a society built on that critique. Such is the road we have been traveling.
It is only now, when the Western world is faced with the self-destructive tendency of a worldview that is devoid of faith and inimical to metaphysics and religion, that it is beginning to look back on the road it has traveled.
The symposium, The Sacred and the challenge of Modernity discusses the impact of desacralization on the modern world. The participants suggest that even if the narratives of the past and of modernity have failed us, the actual human acts through which those narratives were given birth are still with us and that those acts can be rediscovered.
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