Published: 2022-12-28

Religion and politics – drama in the sanctuary. Analysis of the perceived impact of Christianity on the political order using the example of Mark Lilla's Powerless God and contemporary searches for spirituality

Maria Szymborska
Christianity-World-Politics
Section: Miscellanea
https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2022.26.1.10

Abstract

The article places itself in the wide debate about relations between religion and politics. It presents the tension among the contemporary intellectuals on the one hand seeking, for the good of society, for some kind of spirituality and on the other being afraid of giving to religion too much influence on the present state. On the example of Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God the article presents the tendency to drawing conclusions in this conflict on the base of ideology rather than on the religion. Mixing those two obscures the image, while the real conflict field seems to be located in everyone’s conscience rather than in the intellectual debates. Reference was made to the works of Daniel Bell, Mark Lilla, Jacques Maritain, John Paul II, Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Roger Scruton, and Maciej Zięba.

Keywords:

Catholic Church, politics, truth, religion, conscience, sovereignty, totalitarianism

Citation rules

Szymborska, M. (2022). Religion and politics – drama in the sanctuary. Analysis of the perceived impact of Christianity on the political order using the example of Mark Lilla’s Powerless God and contemporary searches for spirituality. Christianity-World-Politics, (26), 257–275. https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2022.26.1.10

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