Religion and Modernity: The Future of Belief in the Secularized Society

The author narrates the complex relationship between
modernity and religion in the past and explores its future. After a 
brief introduction to modernity, its failed mission of secularization
and the resurgence of religion are dealt with. The article ends with 
four intellectual challenges that faces Christian theology in the
changed scenario: intelligibility of the love-ethic in a world of
individualism, a consistent stand on human dignity in a world of
conflicting messages, connecting to the spiritual longing of our 
contemporaries, and articulating the Jesus Christ as the mediator
of immanent transcendence to a culture that seems to lack the
sense of transcendence.