Abstract
SUMMARY The notion of secularization has for some time already been admitted in the traditions of sociology. Since a few years however it is also being used in another context. Actually it is now employed to define a current, urgent and new social ecclesiastical problem. It allows the problem to be posed in an objective way making it accessible for an ecclesiastical policy instead of only experiencing the problem subjectively. But this use is uncritical as long as one has not been able to determine empirically which objective situation lies at the origin of the problem and in particular of the conscience of the problem. Such an empirical critique is evaded by lifting the whole problem up to a supra—empirical level, or by supposing that the problem has already been described and analyzed with the help of (obsoleted) hypotheses belonging to the sociological traditions. In this respect, the vulgarisation of theology, and also „serious” theology, are vulnerable, especially on three points. First of all a conf...
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