ОДНОС АВЕ ЈУСТИНА ПРЕМА ЗАПАДУ
ABBA JUSTIN’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS WEST

Author(s): Zoran B. Kinđić
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: humanism; theohumanism; pope; atheism; nihilism
Summary/Abstract: Unlike St. Nikolai the Serb, who, in his youth, cultivated a benevolent attitude towards Western culture, St. Justin of Celije, under Dostoevsky’s influence, takes a highly critical stance on the West from the beginning. The reason for such attitude should be sought in Abba Justin’s conviction that the West, instead of remaining faithful to God-man, determined for a humanistic position. He sees in humanism the original evil, rebellion against God. By proclaiming man to be the measure of all things, humanism will eventually arrive to atheism and relitivism, that, however, culminate in anarhism and nihilism. Papacy is the forerunner of secular humanism. The gradual substitution of God-man with man, reaching its pinnacle in dogma of papal infallibility, is the cause of the spiritual death of the West. Faith of the serbian peaple, being at geographical and spiritual watershed between East and West, depends on whether they will opt for theo-humanism or humanism.

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