20/08/2020
During the past few decades countless different theories attempted to explain the rise of the modern state.
Head of the research group: Tamás Nyirkos, members: Ádám Darabos, András Jancsó, research assistant: Vince Hegedűs
Our research focus is on Christianity, which keeps on playing an essential role in shaping European politics. The most obvious influence is through Christian Democracy as a set of principles and values, but also through those practices and institutions that were established in Europe during the Christian Middle Ages. A study of these principles, values, practices and institutions may contribute to a rediscovery of the Christian origins of modern Europe and provide 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.