Paradigme misionare patristice. Studiu de caz: Sfântul Chiril al Ierusalimului, Sfântul Simeon Noul Teolog și Cuviosul Sofronie Saharov
Patristic Missionary Paradigms. Case Study: Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint Simeon the New Theologian and Elder Sophrony Sakharov

Summary/Abstract: The present study does not propose an exhaustive approach to the way in which the Fathers understood the mission of the Church. We will stop at only three Fathers whom we considered representative of the subject in question and who are similar in many respect sin the way they approach the problem of mission. It is very important that the common red thread that connects these three is the awareness that the external mission cannot be done without the internal adherence to the truth of the Gospel and to the life of the Church as it has always been understood. He who preaches to others must himself be a convert, but notin the simple and degraded sense of the term. Deep conversion to the word of the Gospel ist he source that determines all pastoral and missionary success. Not the empty words, notthe content of faith based exclusively on reason, but the inner coherence itself is what gives true content to any Orthodox missionary endeavor.

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