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La violenza dei giovani e l’educazione religiosa come sfide missionare attuali
The violence of youth and the religious education as today missionary challenges

Author(s): Mihai Himcinschi
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: religious education; Church’s mission; youth; violence; social group; adolescence; family; education; religious system

Summary/Abstract: The sense of violence, but also its exteriorization, is not an ontological custom of human beings. Christian theology, and especially Orthodox spirituality, sees evil – respectively the sin – as the cause of this state or its actions manifested ad extra. Christians’ God is Love (I In. 4, 16) and He, as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, pours the communion of His love on earth, between people, bringing in the restoration state of the fallen human nature through the incarnated Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, as state and work in love with God and among all others. The violence, as a state of rebellion of man against God, but also against the surrounding nature, is due to human separation from the Structure of the Supreme Love, and his annexation to corruptibility and damage of the created existences oriented towards evil and evilness. This orientation is optional, and God has no form of coercion, because man was created as rational person, with sense and free will.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-26
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Italian