Secularization and secularity as a determinant of Christianity itself for the establishment of peace and freedom in the World

preprint OA: closed
Full text JSON View at publisher

Abstract

During several seminars focused on the Social Doctrine of the Church, we addressed the topic of the relationship between religion and the state, which we can call _secularity_ or _laicity_. Although our post-Christian society often uses another word - _secularization_ - it is not always easy to understand what is hidden under this term. Since the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, we hear many representatives of religions in Central Europe talking about "creeping secularization" and the like. In our European society, we see a sharp decline in religious awareness and a loss of traditional faith. Many religious societies are forced to close their institutions or reorient them to non-religious purposes. All these traditional ideas assume that the religious message (in the Christian sense - the Gospel) could only be expressed in purely religious "environments". In our contribution, we would like to point out _positive (Christian) secularity_, which does not abandon religion but seeks a balanced relationship between earthly and heavenly things.
Full text 621 characters · extracted from oa-doi-fallback · click to expand
There is a newer version available for this {{ publicationType }}. View latest version {{ publication.field_name }} {{ publication.subfield_name }} Copyright: © {{ publicationYear }} {{ publication.presentation_authors[0].full_name + (publication.presentation_authors.length > 1 ? ' et al' : '') }}. This is an open access publication distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Check the {{ publicationType | capitalize }} Source for copyright and license information. Listen on

Text is read by the "Ask this paper" AI Q&A widget below. Extraction quality varies by source — PMC NXML preserves structure cleanly, OA-HTML may include some navigation residue, and OA-PDF can have broken hyphenation. The publisher copy (via DOI) is the canonical version.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Ask this paper AI returns verbatim quotes from the full text · source: oa-doi-fallback

Answers must be backed by verbatim quotes from this paper's full text. Hallucinated quotes are dropped automatically; if no verbatim passage answers the question, we say so. How this works

Citation neighborhood (no data yet)

We don't have any in-corpus citations linked to this paper yet. The paper's references may be in our DB but unresolved to ``paper_id`` (resolution happens at ingest when the cited DOI matches a row we already have). Run the cross-source citation reconcile pass to retry.

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-05-19T01:45:01.086888+00:00