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A Turning Point for Europe?: The Church in the Modern World: Assessment and Forecast is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cardinal Ratzinger addresses the challenges and responsibilities that both the Church and society in Europe face after the collapse of Marxism. Both liberalism and Marxism have denied religion the right to have any influence on public affairs and the common future of humanity. Since there is also a great spiritual emptiness growing in the West with the increased secularization, consumerism and...

the existence of man qua man rests. He reviews all the great cultures to show the existence of this evidential character. Not only does he refer to the moral inheritance of the Greeks, as this was articulated especially by Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, who wish to lead man to perceive the rationality of Being and, therefore, demand an education in “connaturality with reason”; he recalls also the idea of Rta in early Hinduism, which speaks of the harmony of the cosmic order, the moral virtues and
Pages 35–36