Religious Modernism in the System of Institutional Christianity
https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-2-35-50
Abstract
Christian modernism, as an unofficial ideological movement, is developed in response to the challenges of capitalism, which constrict significantly the social basis of institutional Christianity. With the transition of capitalism to the stage of globalization, the situation is complicated by formation within society of the irreligious worldview standard as a social dominant. At the same time, organized Christian institutions react to modernism situationally, without taking into account its systemic nature and its connection with the dynamics of capitalist socio-economic relations. The main message of the article is that Christian modernism is not an historical accident, but an objective phenomenon; its social prerequisites were formed by development of capitalism and its transition to the phase of globalization.
About the Author
V. V. Simonov
Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Simonov Veniamin V. - Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Church History, Faculty of History.
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Simonov V.V. Religious Modernism in the System of Institutional Christianity. Federalism. 2025;30(2):35-50. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-2-35-50
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