Being a Christian in this world
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This article reports on the conference delivered by Metropolitan Stephanos, Primate of the Estonian Orthodox Church, during a plenary session devoted to the Christian presence in the contemporary world. In the form of a theological meditation, the author examines the situation of Christians, and more particularly of Orthodox Christians, in the face of two antagonistic realities: religious decline in the West and the rise of fanaticism in the Middle East and Africa. The central idea is that this tension paradoxically constitutes fertile ground for a renewed encounter between the Gospel and the world. On the theological level, the article argues that only a pastoral approach grounded in communion is capable of challenging a secularized society, by restoring to it the meaning of love and opening humanity to a contemplative dimension of reality.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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