АФИРМАТИВНИ КАРАКТЕР ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ТЕОЛОГИЈЕ ИЗРАЖЕН КРОЗ ДИЈАЛОГ ПРАВОСЛАВНИХ СА НЕПРАВОСЛАВНИМ ХРИШЋАНИМА
AFFIRMATIVE CHARACTER OF THEOLOGY EXPRESSED THROUGH DIALOGUE WITH THE ORTHODOX NON-ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS

Summary/Abstract: The Holy Spirit constitutes the community between God and all human beings, but not without dialogue. God calls and man responds, with man’ s positive response the grace of God actualizes and establishes the community. The graceful dialogue is permeated with love, the love of God which is similar to man’s love. God’s love is unconditional, it shines and embraces every human being, that’s why the love of every Orthodox Christian should be calm and ready to embrace, accept and take care of the salvation of every human being. On the basis of that love, starts every dialogue between Christians. That kind of dialogue is not looking for the Truth, it owns it through the Holy Communion. Because the Truth is God’s personality, The Lord Jesus Christ. The Orthodox Christian witnesses the Truth and calls the brother with whom he has that dialogue to feel and unite with that same Truth. The Truth needs to be shown and witnessed, it is not a subject of compromises, or objective scientific rationalization. The unification of the Christians is not a matter of accepting a certain confessional minimum signed on a particular document. The unification goes beyond the ethical, intellectual and sentimental reconciliation. It can only be established in the fullfilness of personal relationships, personal loving relation ship with God and our closest ones. The real unity of secrets, the unity of life in God and His Church. If we put love similar to God’s Love as the foundation of the dialogue between Christians, and the testimony of the Truth as a methodology of the dialogue and the fullness of the relations and unity in the experience of faith as the goal of the dialogue then that’s the best way to affirm Orthodox theology in it’s width and beauty. In this way we achieve the creative dynamism of the prayer „for the unity of us all“.

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