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Comunicarea în societate și în Biserică
Communication in society and in Church

Author(s): Elena Mihaela Jurcan
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: dialogue; monologue; communication; society; church; communion;

Summary/Abstract: The study I have made follows a comparison between the two ways of dialogue offered byour society and the Church. We live in a society that can be called post- Christian, post-individual, but primarily is post-dialogical. The man of thethird millennium does not need alterity or the other, but it is sufficient for himself. This situation puts the man in a state of “socialization” but not ofdialogue. Authentic Christianity insists on dialogue, showing that it is the form through which the human condition ca reach perfection. Dialogue in Christianity takes a doxological form, referring to God, helping in the same time the fulfillment of the other. By dialogue, man is fulfilledbecause in the Church we are talking about a charismatic and logosiatic dialogue. God by His Incarnation has shown His will to engage in dialogue with man. Through Jesus Christ people were able to see His existential Light and Goodness. So man could stand face to face with God in a communional dialogue through which he felt grace and divine peace. For this reason, the Christian is in the church never alone, but together with others people in prayer and communion, also with all creation and with God. Unfortunately, in the present society the other (my brother) is canceled, in his place we have the digital interface, which isolates andtransmits information only, without any feeling or response and without communion. Only in Christ we rediscover our face and communication, through which we achieve the full communion. Through this communion we begin our eternal epektasis.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 65-75
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian