Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, Crete 2016
The re-evangelization of God's people in contemporary secularized societies, as well as the evangelization of those who have not yet come to know Christ, is the unceasing duty of the Church. The Orthodox Church regards the indissoluble loving union of man and woman as a "great mystery"...
| Subtitles: | Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, Kolymvari, Crete, June 19-26, 2016 |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Holy Cross School of Theology, Hellenic College
[2017]
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The Greek Orthodox theological review
Year: 2017, Volume: 62, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 33-57 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KDF Orthodox Church NBN Ecclesiology NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Witness bearing (Christianity)
B Religious Education B Religious communities B Religious Symbols B Councils & synods B Crete (Greece) |
| Summary: | The re-evangelization of God's people in contemporary secularized societies, as well as the evangelization of those who have not yet come to know Christ, is the unceasing duty of the Church. The Orthodox Church regards the indissoluble loving union of man and woman as a "great mystery" … of Christ and the Church (Eph 5.32) and she regards the family that springs from this, which constitutes the only guarantee for the birth and upbringing of children in accord with the plan of divine Economy, as a "little Church" (John Chrysostom, Commentary of the Letter to the Ephesians, 20, PG 62.143), giving to it the appropriate pastoral support. The local Orthodox Churches are today called to promote a new constructive synergy with the secular state and its rule of law within the new framework of international relations, in accordance with the biblical saying: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's" (cf. A basic element of the ideology of secularization has ever been and continues to be the full autonomy of man from Christ and from the spiritual influence of the Church, by the arbitrary identification of the Church with conservatism and by the historically unjustified characterization of the Church as an alleged impediment to all progress and development. |
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| Item Description: | Der Verfasser "Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church" ist aus dem Sachtitel ersichtlich "Secretariat of the Holy and Great Council" ist auf Seite 57 ersichtlich |
| ISSN: | 0017-3894 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Greek Orthodox theological review
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