Do insecularizável cristianismo: uma leitura radical

This essay provides an analysis of the concept and phenomena of secularization, arguing that Christianity in its radical message and experience is not, in any sense, secularizable. After a conceptual survey and the consequent first definition of secularization as desacralization, we focus on Hegel’s Verweltlichung and its consequences in Hegelians and later Hegelianism, as well as confronting them with the Catholic Christian view. Finally we evaluate the concept of secularization from an etymological point of view, while examining the concept thus redefined (as linear time and as related to the temporal order) in the Gospels. The present essay offers a reconsidered discussion on philosophy and Christianity at a historical moment so removed from any spiritual path.