Criticism of modern forms of Christianity from the integral traditionalist’s point of view
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https://doi.org/10.15633/tst.1641Keywords:
traditionalism, humanism, perennial philosophyAbstract
The purpouse of this paper is to examine main objection against modern form of western christianity formulated by representatives of Traditionalist School (R. Guénon, F. Schuon, A. K. Coomaraswamy). According to traditionalist’s point of view degeneration of contemporary culture was caused by metaphysical shift toward humanism, indyvidualism and anthropocentrism, which began XIV century and gradually destroyed whole hierarchical and theocentrical culture. In case of religion this revolution led to sentimentalism, moralism, and religious syncretism. These attitudes realised by Reformation spoiled not only modern theology but whole religious world view.References
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