Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Dr. Tomás Halík, Honorary Professor of the LSRS

The End of Modern Christianity

Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Dr. Tomás Halík, Honorary Professor of the LSRS. 

A Response will be given by Card. Grzegorz Ryś.

Secularization has not destroyed religion but transformed it. In the age of late modernity Christianity was understood as a “world view.” “Catholicism” emerged as a closed system in opposition to modern culture and society. 

The Second Vatican Council took a significant step in the transition from “Catholicism” to catholicity, universality, ecumenicity, but the openness to modernity came at a time when modernity was just ending.

Now there is another radical transformation of civilization. The answer to the paradigm shift may be “synodality.” Religion can be understood as re-lecture (religio as re-legere), a new hermeneutic of “signs of the times.” It requires the art of spiritual discernment, a contemplative approach to reality. 

Please find all the details in the invitation here.

The lecture will be preceded by the Eucharist at 5.30PM in the chapel of the CJ23 and followed by a reception.

Please register by Monday, March 18th following this link or using the QR Code.

Thursday, March 21st 2024 – 7.00 PM
Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
Centre Jean XXIII • 52, rue Jules Wilhelm • L-2728 Luxembourg