The Orthodox Church: Back to Progress
There is an increased tendency inside the Orthodox Churches to reject the socio-cultural changes brought about by postmodernity and seek the restoration of an idealized past. In this article, I argue against this trend and set the premises for a constructive Orthodox engagement with secular postmode...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2018, Volume: 83, Issue: 3, Pages: 235-249 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rumänisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Stăniloae, Dumitru 1903-1993
/ Spirituality
/ Deification
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church |
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Orthodox Church
B Progress B Dumitru Staniloae B Communism B History B Romance language area |
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| Summary: | There is an increased tendency inside the Orthodox Churches to reject the socio-cultural changes brought about by postmodernity and seek the restoration of an idealized past. In this article, I argue against this trend and set the premises for a constructive Orthodox engagement with secular postmodernity. Initially, I point out that in the patristic frame of thought, the movement of history receives a positive value as part of God's plan to lead humankind to deification. In order to show how this motion towards deification can be discerned in a modern setting, I turn to Dumitru Staniloae, who interpreted and applied the patristic vision of history in the context of communist Romania. Using Staniloae's criteria for evaluating the communist regime, I suggest that Orthodoxy and postmodernity might have more in common than what was initially thought and argue for a re-evaluation of the Orthodox approach to the major tropes of postmodernity. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-4989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140018768351 |