Пост-традиционное христианство: православная церковь между ностальгией и антиципацией
POST-TRADITIONAL CHRISTIANITY: THE ORTHODOX CHURCH BETWEEN NOSTALIGA AND ANTICIPATION

Author(s): Zlatko Matić
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: post-traditional Christianity; Eastern Orthodox theology; interpretation of tradition; post-modern; dialogical paradigm
Summary/Abstract: The text presents the philosophical-theological analysis of the phenomenon of “post-traditional” Christianity and attempts to provide the constructive answer of the Orthodox Church to the challenges that this problem poses to it. The goal is to emphasize the need to make a daring reinterpretation of the conception of tradition, to extract it from the treasury of the archives and to make it alive. For such an undertaking, the dialogue with the modern world is crucial, understanding of the postmodernity, consideration of the understanding of time, identity, history, and tradition. Therefore, it is necessary to suggest a vivid move towards a “dialectical paradigm” to overcome not only homogeneous identities and homogeneous repetition (along with nostalgia and lost paradise), but also naive futurology that afflicts both the Church and the world. The dialogical paradigm is not passive. Dialogical principle invites us to the quest to seek another because love for us is the obligation.

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