The
main interest of nowadays Christian churches and confessions is searching for
the Christian unity, to which another major issue has been added, which
torments the Christian world, namely, the need to adapt the practices of
religious life to the conditions and the evolution status of contemporary
society. The pace in which this adjustment to present reality is prepared, as
well as the means being used differ, without a shred of doubt, among churches
and confessions. For instance, the Roman-CatholicChurch, tributary to its
unifying and centralizing spirit and organization, has dealt with the
fundamental principles of this "aggiornamento” in the decrees and
"constitutions" of the Second Vatican Council, which the following
regional synods intended to put into practice, according to the local
conditions of every national Church.
The
Orthodox Churches were supposed to prepare for a fairly long period of time a
Pan-Orthodox synod already known as the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox
Church held in Crete between 16-26 June 2016.
There were six approved documents: The Mission of the Orthodox Church in
Today’s World; The Orthodox Diaspora; Autonomy and the Means by which it is
Proclaimed; The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments; The Importance of
Fasting and its Observance Today; Relations of the Orthodox Church with the
Rest of the Christian World. All denominations in which Christianity is
currently divided consider some action should be taken in order to prevent and
bridge in some cases the increasing gap between the traditional forms of
religious Christian life on the one hand and the goals, forms of life and
aspects of today’s world on the other hand. In light of these general needs and
trends to renew Christianity, to move with the times, the idea of “modernizing”
the Orthodox cult has also been contemplated. It has been questioned, in a
justified manner within the Ecumenical movement, whether the Orthodox cult and
its traditional forms, approved by practice and governed by the regulations of
ritual still corresponds to the religious needs of the human soul on the
background of the circumstances and possibilities of today’s social life.
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 15 Eylül 2019 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 15 Temmuz 2019 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2019Cilt: 5 Sayı: 14 |
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