Head of research group: Tamás Nyirkos, members: Ádám Darabos, András Jancsó, Research assistant: Vince Hegedűs
Our research explores Christianity’s role in shaping European politics. The most obvious influence is through Christian Democracy as a set of principles and values, moreover those practices and institutions that had been founded in Europe during the Christian Middle Ages. A study of these principles, values, practices and institutions contribute to the rediscovery of the Christian origins of modern Europe providing a more solid ground for maintaining the Christian political tradition in both theory and practice.
During the past few decades countless different theories attempted to explain the rise of the modern state.
Richard Neuhaus’ The Naked Public Square famously complained in the 1980s that modern secularized politics, a strict separation of church and state tended to eliminate religious and moral values from public discourse.
What we tackle here is the moral foundations of the modern, secular state and a possible solution to its problems which so-called “secular religions” offer.
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