摘要：As the writings of Charles Taylor have shown secularism and secularisation
can mean different things to different people. We need to distinguish social aspects, such
as institutional ‘separation of Church and state’ from cultural aspects, such as shifting
attitudes to religious belief per se. At this level we can identify an increasingly aggressive
and vocal atheism claiming an intellectual “high ground”. In this regard the paper
considers traditional Catholic teaching on faith and reason and the natural knowledge
of God, and more recent teaching repudiating Christendom and exploring other
possibilities concerning the relationship between Church and politics. Churches need to
be able to properly distinguish which aspects of secularisation they can support and
which they must oppose rather than adopt a blanket judgment on the whole
phenomenon.
关键词：secularism; secularisation; Charles Taylor; Australia; Christendom;
modernity; atheism; political theology
