СТУПАЊЕ У ЦРКВУ ПРЕМА КАТИХЕТСКИМ ОМИЛИЈАМА ТЕОДОРА МОПСУЕСТИЈСКОГ
ENTERING THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE CATECHETICAL HOMILIES OF THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA
Author(s): Đakon Lazar ĐačićSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije (CEIR)
Keywords: Theodore of Mopsuestia; baptism; second birth; image (τύπος); heavenly dwellings; exalted city; communitarianism (šautaputa); death; ressurection; nourishment of immortality
Summary/Abstract: Perceiving Theodore’s thought concerning baptism in its entirety, we get an impression that he constantly insists that, by entering the Church, we actually do enter the kingdom of God, the heavenly city, of which the Church is an image (τύπος). That city, that kingdom, that life which is to come, is given to us in baptism as a pledge, an that is the reason why we are baptised. We are doing all that Christ left us with to do: we are being baptised by His baptism and do partake in His body, and all of this is done as in the image (τύπος) and in signs (σημεῖον), because the final and complete fulfillment of that reality will be accomplished in the future, when we’ll fully and unutterably taste of the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Journal: Religija i tolerancija
- Issue Year: 20/2022
- Issue No: 37
- Page Range: 59-80
- Page Count: 22
- Language: Serbian