The Participation of Nature in the Discovery and Manifestation of the Sacred and in the Performing of the Liturgy Cover Image

Participarea naturii la descoperirea și manifestarea sacrului și la liturghisire
The Participation of Nature in the Discovery and Manifestation of the Sacred and in the Performing of the Liturgy

Author(s): Ștefan Pomian
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: nature; liturgy; symbol; God;

Summary/Abstract: The very first couple of people brought a liturgical relation between them and God. God communicated with people through the first couple’s life, through their own way of living. They were living in accordance with the divine rations which were belonging to their life. The divine rations sustained their existence and showed them how to work and moreover how to keep the Eden’s Garden. The sin’s commission from heaven brings people the impossibility of liturgy on. That’s why the nature is the way in which people communicate with God. People take from nature that thing, Yours from Yours, and they offer it to God. The communication between God and people, people and God, will be done through analogues and symbols. Nowadays are also using the analogy and the symbol. This usage is making to understand the Church’s mystery of Jesus without breaking its miracles. In Church, each truly faithful Christian is like an alight dewberry which is always keeping on by the love of God. The God’s love is communicating to people through His word.

  • Issue Year: I/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 111-131
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Romanian