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Spiritualitatea eclesială creștină în viața socială
The ecclesiastical Christian spirituality in the social life

Author(s): Ștefan Pomian
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: ecclesiastical Christian spirituality; Church;

Summary/Abstract: A church represents the beginning of God’s empire on the earth, as a communion between God and people. This communion outruns the past and the future and it lays the paradise’s state, as a continuing present, the communion state which pass through from desire and search to reality; life it isn’t an anxious sea any more, because it sails into Church’s ship without danger as well as Noe’s ark. Church is the shelter and the tent where love for God and fight against everything is counter God, are on the first place bcause it realize the raise to God. Church enters theological in world, in Hristos divine-human person, as a reality, but which is incomplete yet because it isn’t exteriorize and it includes only God (where we all where included). Church passes through into objective reality’s domain, at tenth-fifth when it yield a unique fact in human history: the languages unite into a faith symphony, at Saint Spirit’s voice. Since than, the Spirit remains in it and comes always through Saint Mystery’s paper into a dynamic movement, because it doesn’t come to lay in a static form, but to live in dynamic state to be lived the faith. In this way the Church mission it’s unfold in history; if the history changes, pass from an epoch to another, then the churches does not change. It remains in its permanent dialog with the world and it always keeps the divine message and the morality in front of the world, because Hristos remains always the same. The sky and the new earth are the Churches target in the world. Therefore, the Church promotes in world the moral and spiritual values as: good, harmonious, peace, freedom, faith, love and it straightens the humanity to consummation, to a continuous spiritual and social progress, because the man becomes which Hristos becomes. The touching of this target means the salvation. The Churches mission in the world and for the world is to contemporize Hristos as a brother in a human society as a very complex and dynamic organism. The existence, but more than that, the inexistence of the completions conditions goes to tensions and divergensions between diverse social categories, human groups and behind the person. Because of this, nowadays, people have the idea of substitute the God.

  • Issue Year: I/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 159-171
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian