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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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Irish theological quarterly
Anno: 2018, Volume: 83, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 235-249 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Rumänisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Stăniloae, Dumitru 1903-1993
/ Spiritualità
/ Divinizzazione
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | CB Esistenza cristiana KAJ Età contemporanea KBK Europa orientale KDF Chiesa ortodossa |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Orthodox Church
B Progress B Dumitru Staniloae B Romania B Communism B History |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Riepilogo: | 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 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140018768351 |
