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  • 1 - Anti-Materialism

  • from Part I - Conceptual Building Blocks of the Christian Democratic Ideology
  • Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, City College, City University of New York
  • Book:
    What is Christian Democracy?
    Published online:
    04 September 2019
    Print publication:
    03 October 2019, pp 29-52

  • Summary

    This chapter reconstructs the philosophy of history on which the Christian Democratic ideology is predicated through a discussion of the role this ideological tradition has assigned to the critique of materialism and other related concepts such as naturalism, immanentism, gnosticism and atheism. Reference to these concepts is pervasive in Christian Democratic discourse. In the opening speech he gave as Secretary of the Italian PPI, at its first national congress in 1919, for instance, Luigi Sturzo asserted that the newly founded organization’s purpose was to “participate in the public life of the nation … in order to contrast the materialism and laicism in which contemporary society has become soaked, and of which it has already experienced the consequences in the catastrophic war that just ended” (Sturzo 1919b, 83).