PHILIPPINE CATHOLICISM AND SECULARIZATION
FACE-OFF, DENIAL OR DIALOGUE?
Keywords:
SECULARIZATION:Abstract
When the Second Vatican Council says in Lumen Gentium that it
focuses its attention on the world of men [and women], calling it as
the theatre of human history, an ecclesiological shift happened. The
distinction between the Church “and” the world was reinterpreted in
favour of a Church “in” the world.1 Thus, the world which the Council
Fathers call the theatre of humanity is practically the Church’s own
theatre. The Church is not totally different from the world because it is
in the world. It is not a perfect society that ontologically exists outside
of the world’s premises but rather one that engages the various states
and institutions within the same sphere.
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