Christianity in a Secular Society: Perspectives of Evolution
The article examines the current situation of the Christian religion in the context of the cha l-lenges of the post-industrial world. Today, Christian churches are experiencing a serious crisis associated with the increasing divergence of religious values and the demands of a secularized society. In these conditions, Christianity faces the questions of finding a new correlation between the religious and the secular in public life, new ways to increase adaptive efficiency. The purpose of the study is to analyze and evaluate the attempts of Christian denominations to integrate into modern culture. The main place in the work is occupied by the analysis of the behavior patterns of Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy in the changing social reality. Particular attention is paid to the liberaliz a-tion of morality, which splits not only various Christian denominations, but also the entire Christian world on moral issues. It is shown that there are multidirectional vectors of evolution in the Christian community, represented in alternative theological projects - traditionalism and modernism. It turns out that the most radical forms of revision of religious tradition take place in Protestantism, but they pose a threat of loss of confessional identity. The Catholic Church is experiencing an ideological crisis and has not yet found a theological way out of this situation. Orthodoxy is following the path of moderate renewal, combining maximum openness to the problems of modernity and the obligatory preservation of fidelity to church Tradition. It is noted that the search for ways to develop Christianity turns out to be associated with the search for a way out of modern global crises. It is concluded that the prospects for the evolution of Christianity largely depend on the search for ways to update its adaptive strategy, ensuring the achievement of flexible and optimal forms of combining traditional and modernist elements