Credință și mărturisire ortodoxă într-o lume secularizată
Orthodox Faith and Confession in a Secularized World

Author(s): Aurel Mihai
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: faith; secularization; confession; mission; globalization; postmodernism; communion; salvation;
Summary/Abstract: The Christian world is currently facing a major problem represented by secularization. Secular culture is a multiple, heterogeneous, typically non-total culture; a culture in which a hierarchy of knowledge can no longer be achieved in a unified and authoritarian system. Thus, the great religious institutions, the Churches, are also affected by secularization and the loss of symbolic references. The existence of postmodern man is shaped by the influence of the secularist consequences of the pseudo-values promoted in all spheres of human existence, including the religious one. Thus, secularization has determined the shift of the center of gravity of life and culture from God to man, a phenomenon due to anthropocentrism that has become a characteristic of modernity. True Orthodox living occurs when the members of the community are totally united with Christ and the Church, affirming faith in God and participating in the life of the Church. The missionary context in which we find ourselves is marked by the process of secularization with the particular complexity of its implications. The Orthodox mission is the extension of the love of the Holy Trinity for the transformation of the entire world.

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