Status Updates From من اجل حياة العالم

Impresionanta pana acum. Din introducere si doar din primul capitol imi dau seama ce bogăție adâncă cuprinde această carte. Inteleg ca exista ortodocsi care vor sa isi analizeze sincer Credinta, Religia, Doctrina si sa traiasca intr-o Relatie cu Adevărul, dincolo de anoastele ritualuri, traditii si forme in care ne-am inecat de a lungul secolelor.

I haven’t been taking the book in. I needs to read this one in print.
Stay tuned.

"Secularism, I submit, is above all a negation of worship. I stress: not of God's existence, not of some kind of transcendence and therefore of some kind of religion. If secularism in theological terms is a heresy, it is primarily a heresy about man. It is the negation of man as a worshiping being, as homo adorans: the one for whom worship is the essential act which both "posits" his humanity and fulfills it."

It sounds like a paradox, but the basic religion that is being preached and accepted as the only means of overcoming secularism is in reality a surrender to secularism. This surrender can take place - and actually does - in all Christian confessions, although it is differently "colored" in a nondenominational suburban "community church" than in a traditional, hierarchical, confessional and liturgical parish.