The Challenge of Agnosticism

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Abstract

We are now witnessing something new in human history: many persons including those involved in scientific disciplines like engineering, psychology, chemistry, philosophy, economy, etc. declare to be agnostics but in the same time lead a life committed and coherent with ethical principles peculiar to Christianity. In fact, we are witnessing nowadays an agnosticism more practical than theoretical. Any citizen may lead a pleasant life without adhering to any
religion. This situation proper to our times implies a serious reflection about the reasons which make possible certain agnostic attitudes, the cultural pluralism as a challenge to the access to God, the crisis of the metaphysical thought, the fragmentation of reason, the anthropological change of philosophy and the condition of a consumerist and hedonistsociety. All these aspects bring about great difficulties when we want to structure a speech about God today; nevertheless, this article triesto find a way based on the existential life which takes into account the personal experience of the mystery of God, without giving up the requirements of reason. 

Keywords:
Agnosticism Racionality Reason Modernity Theology God

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, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Doctor en teología porla Pontificia Universidad Gregoriana de Roma. Profesor de teología sistemática en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro. Actualmente es miembro de la Comisión Teológica Internacional. Entre sus librosse destacan: Um catolicismo desafiado: Igreja e pluralismo religioso no  Brasil, Paulinas, São Paulo 1996; El cristianismo face às religiões, Loyola, São Paulo 1998.