The relation between religion and politics – a problem in Romania of today
The relation between religion and politics – a problem in Romania of today

Summary/Abstract: The famous “Edict of Milan (of Mediolanum)” of 313 proclaimed the freedom of all religions, including Christianity, throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire. After becoming itself the majority religion in Europe, Christianity incorporated the idea of freedom and, using its own conceptualisation of it, shaped society from its medieval roots up to modern times. Under the pressure of modernity as a reaction to the medieval understanding of freedom (and recently of contemporary postmodernist society) European society practices a limitless freedom, from which any trace of its own ancient beginnings or Christian paradigms have been rooted out. Consequently, the Western world, towards which we also gravitate, has given rise to new forms of morality and concepts which border libertinism, with which Orthodoxy cannot coexist. Under the pressure of this modernity (or postmodernity) which is also making itself felt in today's Romania, Orthodoxy must clarify its own metaphysical foundations if it is to successfully shape the future of Romanian society. This is why the relationship between politics and religion, that is to say Orthodox religion, in today's Romanian society, is burdened by the pressing need for a clarification of these principles as prerequisite to the creation of an authentic political doctrine of Romanian Orthodoxy, in order to build the foundations of the relationship between the Church and the State upon compatible criteria.

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