Monografia: Europa i el cristianisme: 500 anys del luteranisme [[](]1517-2017)
Ignasi Boada
Abstract
There is no easy answer to the question of what Europe is or has been, insofar as Europe has no unified cultural or linguistic identity. Rather than a single history of Europe, therefore, we should speak of a variety of European histories. Yet even so, it is unreasonable to argue that the word “Europe” does not refer to a coherent reality or that it is merely a rhetorical flourish. The origins of Europe are complex and very old: all the peoples of Europe share the Greek and Semitic origins of our culture. At the same time, Christianity has been both a locus of synthesis for these cultural strands and a crucial element in the structuring of European reality. Humanism in general is similarly a constituent ingredient of the European soul and, in a very special sense, of modernity. Nonetheless, a constant temptation to use violence and a fascination with destruction are not aspects alien to the reality of the Old Continent.
Keywords: Europe, humanism, Christianity, culture, education
Reception date: 10/05/2017
Acceptance date: 25/07/2017