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GIRALDO PATINO, Paula Andrea. Existential Emptiness and the Loss of the Meaning of Life in the Postmodern Subject: Challenges for Christianity in the Twenty-First Century. Cuest. teol. [online]. 2014, vol.41, n.96, pp.425-444. ISSN 0120-131X.

Postmodernity is a current problem that is being discussed from the perspective of several disciplines. One of the reasons for such a discussion is that our time is defined by very particular features which have contributed to the sociocultural transformations that have been taking place since the last century and that nowadays directly affects the humanization of the postmodern subject. Therefore, the aim of the following paper is to theologically analyze the existential emptiness which emerges as a consequence of the human being having lost the meaning of life in postmodernity, in order to throw some light upon human existence and understand it through God. Based on a documentary research, it is proposed that postmodern reality should not be perceived negatively like Christianity commonly does. On the contrary, it should be seen as a time of challenges and opportunities for the present-day believers. Such challenges suggest, among other things, the necessity for a reconfiguration within the Church, so that Her message of redemption might be so inclusive and believable (in testimonial terms) that it might reach everyone, especially those who have lost their meaning of life and have not been able to undertake their own humanization.

Palavras-chave : Postmodernity; Secularization; Meaning of Life; New Evangelization; Christianity.

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