The Christian Awareness of Death in the Secularized Society

Abstract

This paper discusses the awareness of death in contemporary society, dominated by secularism, and in the Christian message. Despite the great cultural changes throughout the history of the West, which led to the so-called „forbidden death” in our society, the awareness of death in a secular viewpoint keeps its main features since the birth of Christianity until today. But the understanding of the Christian message about death, in different cultural contexts, depends on an adequate view of what are the Christian faith and the relationship between faith, reason and human experience.