The Application of Oikonomia in the Sacrament of Ordination
The Application of Oikonomia in the Sacrament of Ordination

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the status of divorced and remarried priests as well as of widowed and remarried ones is present in the life of the Church today. The post-modern, secularized society in which we live is the auspicious context for discarding a man from the balance between what the Church teaches and lives, that is between orthodoxy and orthopraxis, attempting in every way to sweeten rules and, implicitly, to justify sin. In this study, we shall deal first of all with issues concerning the principle of oikonomia, and secondly with the way this principle is reflected in Decision no.1092 of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church passed on the 24th of February 2010 regarding the status of divorced and remarried priests, and widowed and remarried ones, thus addressing the principle of oikonomia in the Sacrament of Ordination.

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