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L'Athéisme à Vatican II De la condamnation du communisme à la négociation avec l'humanisme athée

The passage devoted by the pastoral constitution of Vati can II, Gaudium et Spes, to atheism can be considered as the exemplary place of a change. We assist at the spectacular abandonment of a position of condemnation. This abandon ment is carried out by a series of displacements : the passage of communism in the singular to atheism in the plural, of politics to anthropology, of rejection to negotiation. But this change has limits : the survival of anti-communism, restrictive conditions for dialogue, the persistance of ecclesiocentralism, a perennial natural theology and a constructed opposition between religion in its essence and atheisms in their historical forms.

Social Compass, Vol. 24, No. 4, 347-382 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/003776867702400404


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