TO AN ORTHODOX UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN EXISTENCE. AN APOLOGETIC APPROACH
TO AN ORTHODOX UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN EXISTENCE. AN APOLOGETIC APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: Man's distancing from the true meaning of life has placed him in an existential self-sufficiency. From the point of view of the Orthodox anthropology this change was firstly caused by man‟s fall into sin. In such conditions, the horizon of human existence was limited to concepts and explanations, lacking any value or soteriological purpose. Therefore, when preaching about the true meaning of Christian life, the teaching of our Holy Church focuses on the idea of restoration or regain in Christ. If man remained imprisoned in the laws of matter, human existence would have certainly collapsed and confronted certain death. But because “the earnest expectation of the creature (unconsciously) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God” (Rm. 8, 19),salvation came through the divine Logos, “who became our brethren by incarnation”. In this new stage of life, man makes peace again with his flesh component, hoping that “it will be blessed by the presence of God, that it may be a means by which man will know God more and he will be filled with His glory, showing and through it with the glory of his freedom, and thereby it also succeeded in escaping the slavery of rottenness laws”.

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