Свети Климент Охридски като душепастир
Saint Clement of Ohrid and His Pastoral Ministry

Author(s): Aleksander Naumow
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show the pastoral ministry of St. Clement. He, as the pastor and the teacher, shows basic Christian dogma in the perspective of ethics, morality and pragmatics of everyday life of the Christians and the Church. According to him, the essence of the functioning of the Church is the synergy between God and man, as well as between particular members of the Body of Christ, all connected by the Eucharist life. For St. Clement Christian anthropology is strictly related to soteriology and ecclesiology. Clement shows that a single man, through his participation in the Church, is able to transform a personal charity into a social action, and thus creates the basis for the Orthodox understanding of diakonia and social ministry. In addition, he uses a transparent system of ethical standards, allowing the internal improvement of individuals and societies, becoming in this way the Slavic precursor of moral theology.

• Details
• Contents