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Trinity and Society
Trinity and Society

Author(s): Mihai Himcinschi
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: society; politics; Church; state; communion; revelation; interpersonal relationships; monotheism; social stability; anthropology

Summary/Abstract: God addresses Himself to the whole world and all social classes through His Spirit; even then, only as far as every person obeys the spirit whom one may hear and understand by means of His breath. This communion between God and world is not a direct one and is being expressed by means of words and deeds that express the way in which people understood and answered to God’s presence in their life, in various historical moments of their experience. Still, it may be a direct revelation as a consequence of a direct intervention of Trinity in the social and personal level. People will never be completely free from the theories and the systems of the creation, but we must insist upon the affirmation that only the dogmas offer us an interpretation of the socially implemented human knowledge, no matter what level they are situated on. The social perspective of the Church helps people see if a doctrine from the social background is authentic and consonant to the criteria of the true religions knowledge-the Gospel-if it has a revelation basis.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 39-76
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: English
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