The rapprochement of the Churches and the perspectives of the 3rd millennium
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This article is the transcript of a paper delivered in 1998 by Vladimir Zelinsky, an Orthodox theologian, before the Cercle Saint-Jean-Baptiste, as part of a reflection on the future of interconfessional dialogue. Adopting both a testimonial and an analytical approach, the author offers a severe assessment of ecumenism at the dawn of the third millennium. He shows that the ecumenical movement is undergoing a twofold crisis: a violent rejection in the East, where it is equated with heresy, and a silent exhaustion in the West, dissolved into tolerance and humanism. The theological contribution of the article lies in the identification of two irreconcilable Christian anthropologies — one soteriological and ascetic, the other humanist and moral — as the true obstacle to rapprochement, and in the proposal of a pneumatological path grounded in inner transfiguration and the exchange of spiritual gifts.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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