PRIDE AND NOBILITY - PATHS OF FREEDOM IN THE VIEW OF TODAY'S MAN ANALYZED THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE WRITINGS OF DOSTOIEVSKI AND FATHER PAISIOS OF MOUNT ATHOS
PRIDE AND NOBILITY - PATHS OF FREEDOM IN THE VIEW OF TODAY'S MAN ANALYZED THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE WRITINGS OF DOSTOIEVSKI AND FATHER PAISIOS OF MOUNT ATHOS

Summary/Abstract: It is the communion between men that does not allow any Christian to rise above others, like a lord. Such a communion above laws, interests, clericalism, dominion, subordination, and qualitative differentiations, is achieved only through love. Such an approach, experience, and expression of Christian teaching can be found both in the great Russian novelist, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and in the "Greek Father", Saint Paisios of the Aghios. In Orthodoxy, one speaks not only of the sacramental priesthood of the clergy but also of the priesthood of the faithful (universal), because in a broad sense the term "priesthood" refers to the calling of every human being, the priesthood being intrinsically linked to the human structure. In other words, the depth of human thought and feeling must be found inescapably within the principle: we are all equal brothers in the freedom of good about our fellow men and to God. The true freedom of man is not proud because man is not God. The strongest of men does not exist unless God also exists. True freedom is that which chooses the good, the free good that is not imposed by necessity, the good done out of pure love that sets the man, who arrives on this hard-to-reach path, to fulfill this senselessness and to walk in the footsteps of God and thus also to see, feel and receive salvation.

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