About destiny and destinations, events and crossroads… Cover Image

Despre destin şi destinaţii, evenimente şi bifurcaţii...
About destiny and destinations, events and crossroads…

Author(s): Ion I. Ionescu
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social history, Religion and science , Sociology of Religion, History of Religion, Psychology of Religion
Published by: Revista de știință și cultură ”Limba Română”
Keywords: God; “specialists”; Reformation; Renaissance; historical facts; community; industrial society; life trajectory;

Summary/Abstract: For about 2500 years we have been ontologizing the sacred, the divinity, which are now going through the general crisis of genealogy, new experiences of fatherhood etc., after passing through the alphabet, writing etc., which allowed their abstraction, their conception beyond appearances materials. The current crisis of reading is seriously damaging to the transmission of divinity. Religious information can be stored on chips, but ecstasy is reached through gestures and words. Digital, tele-presence, video sphere introduce optional, collages, diversities, diversions. The arrow of the Judeo-Christian time that was heading towards the Last Judgment is competed by the themes of the labyrinth, the wheels, the return to the circle, the eternal returns, full of events and deeds without laws of perspective... Those who detach themselves from the Christian world can produce pre-Christian mutations, humanity being invited to reintegrate into the chain of living things. To be a community of their own, we need something above, a superior, a transcendent... Anthony Giddens criticized the tendency to consider human history as a line (summed up in a unitary doctrine) simple, clear, homogeneous, law-abiding world, full of certainties. To opt for a model, for a theory with the claim of hegemony means to adopt a reductionist point of view for knowing the complexity of the world which is a historical and everyday construction of individual and collective actors, the condition and the result, the matrix and the result of intersubjective actions. Most acts reproduce social structures. Events break a continuity and disrupt the way we understand reality. The linearity of a trajectory does not exist without adhering to the ideas of destination and destiny. However, people’s existence and experience represent a series of elections at crossroads, where they make decisions. After celebrating the certainties, now take into account uncertainties, risks, and changes in the logic of urgency. The world of work in the industrial society framed the individual and offered him support and protection. In the conditions of destandardizing the course of life, they look for lost certainties, while facing persistent uncertainties.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2022
  • Issue No: 7-12
  • Page Range: 72-82
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian