Theological reflection about secularism

Abstract

Secularization is a process that reflects the deep changes that contemporary societies have suffered. Religion has ceded its power to the state, to mass and informatics media, and to groups of economic and political power. The religious schema of values has been harmed too. Nevertheless the need of human autonomy founded in the secularization is not strange to a desire of transcendence that every human being has formulated at one stage of his life. An objective look at the dynamics of the secularization allows us to understand that secularization is also part of Gods plan. In this sense, secularization is a need of our time adjacent to the searching of sense and transcendence