Preocupări asupra dezvoltării personale în contextul actual. O evaluare misiologică
Concerns about personal development in the current context. A missiological assessment

Author(s): Iulian Vrabie
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion, Psychology of Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: the deification of man; personal development; life in Christ; communion; discernment;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present some aspects related to the concept of personal development as understood in the context of contemporary society, in a critical analysis from the perspective of Eastern theology. The importance and meaning of human development as a person aiming at deification has always been the focus of the theological anthropology and the writings of the Holy Fathers, developing a vision of man who can grow in his quality only by cultivating communion with his fellow men and with God, and in God with the whole creation. The issue of personal development has also been an object of reflection in various fields of research such as philosophy or psychology in one aspect or another. However, Eastern Christianity brings an important complement to all such attempts, showing today’s christian that the Church offers man the necessary condition for authentic personal growth which is fulfilled in the acquisition of deification through full communion with the eternal God, the Source of Life.

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