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EVANGHELIZAREA CA ASPECT AL LIBERTĂȚII RELIGIOASE ÎN MENTALITATEA SOCIETĂȚII POSTMODERNE
Evangelism as an Aspect of Religious Freedom in the Mentality of Postmodern Society

Author(s): Razvan Brudiu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editions IARSIC
Keywords: Gospel; evangelization; mission; congregation; conversion;

Summary/Abstract: The mission belongs to the Church no matter the conditions of its existence because there is no Church without mission. The Church carries into the world the deliverance work of Our Saviour Jesus Christ. The moment the Holy Ghost descends in Pentecost enables the evangelizing mission of the Church. The apostolic community is filled with the power of the Holy Ghost to preach the Gospel of Christ who died and was resurrected for the whole sinful world. To evangelize means to call the people to deliverance, to restore their connection with God. The aim of the evangelization is to convert an individual or to return him from a sinful immoral life toward a new life through the renewal of the relation of the individual with God in Holy Trinity. The conversion is, in fact, the voluntary reversion from sin, death and viciousness to the real life into Christ. The Church is called to spread the Annunciation into Jesus Christ, the forgiveness, the hope, a new sky and a new land; to destroy the power of evil, the sin and iniquity; to comfort the widows and the orphans, to heal and strengthen those with a hurt heart and to praise life in the middle of death. Each person created after the face of God is called to witness the Annunciation. Preaching the Gospel means to recognise that Jesus Christ is Son of God and Saviour of Our World. The Annunciation means revealing the glory of God in the person and the delivering work of Jesus Christ, also the message or the content inHis homily and teachings and preaching the message. Conclusively, the aim of the Gospel is not to produce a superman, but to permit to the humans to overcome the usual unnatural limits of humanity. Absolving the man from the limits imposed by the sin, Christ enables the human to discover the real dimensions and possibilities of human nature.

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 106-117
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian