The testimony of glorification
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This article presents an anonymous text that circulated in Russia in the 1960s, at the heart of a period of Soviet religious persecution. It is a spiritual and theological meditation on doxology as a form of Christian witness in times of trial. The central idea is that the glorification of God "for all things," including in suffering, poverty, and persecution, constitutes the authentic Christian response to atheist revolt against God. The anonymous author argues that rational apologetics is now insufficient and that only living grace, manifested in unanimous and unconditional praise, can touch hardened hearts. The theological contribution lies in the reformulation of martyrdom as daily doxology accessible to every Christian, thereby extending the tradition of the martyrs in a context of modern persecution.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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