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"Newman and Strossmayer on the Relationship between the Church and the State (II)"

The cooperation between the Catholic Church and the State is a necessity and an imperative that was addressed by two important thinkers of the 19th century, John Henry Newman and Josip Juraj Strossmayer, and the models that actually trace back to their reflections are existent even nowadays. In the second part of a textological and theological analysis of Newman’s and Strossmayer’s understanding of the relationship between the Church and the State, our objective is to explore how much Newman’s and Strossmayer’s deliberations may be useful in the formulation of the bases on which a good relationship between the Catholic Church and the State should be built. We have seen that comprehension and concord are the fundamental imperatives of that relationship, as well as of the contemporary models that analyze it. The modern obstacles to this relationship have the identical roots, findable in negative liberalism and repaganization. On the trail of Newman and Strossmayer, we conclude that an anthropological reform primarily taking hold of the human heart is necessary today. Therefore, such a reform has to realize that the life in accordance with one’s own conscience, in the truth, is more valuable than all the utopian lies and deceptions that formulate the socioeconomic relations and personal life.

John Henry Newman ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer ; Catholic Church ; relation ; anthropological reform

Suradnja Katoličke Crkve i države nužnost je i imperativ kojim su se bavili i John Henry Newman i Josip Juraj Strossmayer, važni mislioci 19. stoljeća, a modeli koji zapravo slijede njihova promišljanja postoje i danas. U drugome dijelu tekstološke i teološke analize Newmanova i Strossmayerova shvaćanja odnosa između Crkve i države naš je cilj istražiti koliko Newmanova i Strossmayerova promišljanja mogu biti korisna pri oblikovanju osnova na kojima bi trebao biti izgrađen dobar odnos Katoličke Crkve i države. Vidjeli smo da su poimanje i sklad osnovni imperativi toga odnosa, kao i suvremenih modela koji ga analiziraju. Suvremene preprjeke tomu odnosu imaju identične korijene, koji se nalaze u negativnome liberalizmu i repaganizaciji. Stoga na tragu Newmana i Strossmayera zaključujemo da je danas nužna antropološka reforma koja bi primarno zahvaćala ljudsko srce, ona koja mora shvatiti da je život u skladu s nečijom savješću, u istini, vrjedniji negoli sve utopijske laži i obmane koje tvore društvenogospodarstvene odnose i osobni život.