Modern Youth: The Conscious oj Sinfulness

U oblikovanju identiteta i usvajanju temeljnih vrednota kod mladog čovjeka važnu ulogu ima socio-kulturološki ambijent. U ovom članku riječ je o temeljnim odrednicama duhovno-kulturnog obzorja koji oblikuje životno iskustvo mladih. Pritom se ističe da prenaglašeni subjektivizam, afektivni, intelektualni i duhovni nomadizam, konzumizam, hedonizam i krivo poimanje slobode imaju u tom procesu najjači utjecaj. Mladi odrastaju u etički neutralnom društvu koje je u cjelini obilježeno moralnom nesigurnošću i smanjenom subjektivnom odgovornošću. Autorica na temelju novijih socio-religijskih istraživanja među mladima, pokazuje kako su uslijed društvene diferencijacije, pluralizma, globalizacije, moralnog relativizma, sve manje prepoznatljiva obilježja kršćanskog morala, a sve je izraženije zamagljeno poimanje grijeha u ponašanju mladih. S jedne strane, u životu mladih prevladava permisivnost i etika lakog opravdanja, posebno na seksualnom području, dok s druge strane jača senzibilnost za "društvene grijehe". U završnom dijelu članka autorica donosi nekoliko pastoralnih smjernica koje mogu biti putokaz u odgoju mladih za kršćanski moral, tj. razvijanju potrebne osjetljivosti za grijeh.Socio-cultural environment has an important role with the young in their formation of the sense of identitv and acceptance of basic values. This article deals with basic features of spiritual and cultural scope that shapes life experience of the young, with the stress on overemphasized subjectivism, affective, intellectual and spiritual nomadic existence, consumerism, hedonism and the wrong idea of freedom, whose impact is the strongest. The young grow up in ethically neutral society, marked as a whole by moral insecurity and decreased subjective responsibility. Based on recent socio-religious researches among the young, the author shows that due to social differentiation, pluralism, globalisation, moral relativism, the features of Christian morality are less and less recognizable, and vague understanding of sin in their behaviour is more and more pronounced. On the one hand in the life of a young person permissibleness and the ethics of an easy excuse prevail, particularly in sex matters, while on the other hand the sensibility for "social sins" strengthens. In the finishing part of the article the author supplies a few pastoral guidelines to serve as guidance for education of the young on Christian morality, i.e. towards developing the necessary sensitivity to a sin