TY - JOUR AB - The chief motivation for undertaking this research comes from my encounter with Charles Taylor’s excellent work, “A Secular Age,” in which he not only analyzes the various historical manifestations of secularization in Western civilization, but also—and above all—tries to identify the newly emerging conditions in which forms of religious belief may develop on the threshold of the new millennium, in the context of what he himself describes as a secular age. My paper chiefly focuses on the fact that the routes leading to, and attempts to bring about, a revival of Christian spirituality in the modern world, which Taylor describes in his book, were already a concern for many philosophers working at the start of the 20th century. One amongst these, the Austrian thinker Ferdinand Ebner, occupies a special position. Known to the philosophical world as one of the originators of dialogical thinking, Ebner uncovers the real key to the revitalization and consolidation of Christian spirituality in the form of the reality of the spoken word. First and foremost, his philosophy of the word constitutes a spectacular example of the intensive search for meaning in life: something not always easy for human beings in a secular age to discover and define for themselves. In this paper I also aim to present the basis for Ebner’s assertion of an inseparable link between the word and religious faith, and to show how this relationship founds a possibility for the renewal of Christian spirituality in the modern world. AD - Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków AU - Jagiełło, Jarosław DO - 10.5840/forphil20111622 KW - Christian spirituality; Ebner, Ferdinand; secularization; Taylor, Charles LA - de M1 - 2 M3 - Article PY - 2011 RN - Casper, Bernhard. Das Dialogische Denken. Eine Untersuchung der Religionsphilosophischen Bedeutung Franz Rosenzweigs, Ferdinand Ebners und Martin Bubers. Freiburg: Herder 1967. Casper, Bernhard. Wstęp, translated by Joachim Piecuch, vii–xvii. In Ferdinand Ebner Słowo i realności duchowe. Fragmenty pneumatologiczne. Translated by Krzysztof Skorulski. Warszawa: IFiS PAN, 2006. Cioran, Emil. “Z nie wydanych zeszytów, ” translated by Maryna Ochab, Zeszyty literackie 63 no. 3 (1998): 56–61. Ebner, Ferdinand. Schriften. 3 Vols. Edited by Franz Seyr. München: Kösel, 1963–1965. Davis, Stephen T., Daniel Kendall and Gerald O'Collins eds. The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Fukuyama, Francis. Das Ende der Geschichte: wo stehen wir? München: Kindler, 1992. Fukuyama, Francis. Das Ende des Menschen. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2004. Jagiełło, Jarosław. Vom ethischen Idealismus zum kritischen Sprachdenken. Ferdinand Ebners Erneuerung des Seinsverständnisses. München: Don Bosco Medien, 1997. Johannes Paul II. Botschaft von Papst Johannes Paul II. An die jugendlichen der ganzen Welt Anlässlich des XX. Weltjugendtages 2005. Castel Gandolfo, 6 August 2004. Judycki, Stanisław. Bóg i inne osoby. Próba z zakresu teologii filozoficznej. Poznań: “W drodze”, 2010. Morris, Thomas V. The Logic of God Incarnate. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986. Sobel, Jordan Howard. Logic and Theism Arguments for and against Beliefs in God. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511497988. Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Tilliette, Xavier. Le Christ de la philosophie: prolégomènes à une christologie philosophique. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1990. Tilliette, Xavier. Le Christ des philosophes: du Maître de sagesse au divin témoin. Namur: Culture et vérité, 1993. Tischner, Józef. Ethik der Solidarität. Prinzipien einer neuen Hoffnung. Granz: Styria, 1982. Tischner, Józef. Myślenie według wartości. Kraków: Znak, 2000. Weber, Max. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie. Vol. 1. Tübingen: Mohr, 1988. SN - 1426-1898 (paper) 2353-7043 (online) SP - 17–38 ST - Logos und Glaube im “secular age.” Zur Religionsphilosophischen Aktualität des Ebner’schen Denkens T2 - Forum Philosophicum TI - Logos und Glaube im “secular age.” Zur Religionsphilosophischen Aktualität des Ebner’schen Denkens TT - Logos and faith in a “secular age” UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=70556895&lang=pl&site=ehost-live http://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=forphil&id=forphil_2011_0016_0002_0017_0038 VL - 16 ID - 7 ER -