Despre datoria, implicarea şi misiunea Bisericii Ortodoxe în postmodernitate
About the Duty, Involvement and Mission of the Orthodox Church in Post-Modernity

Summary/Abstract: In the nineteenth century, Christian clergy in Western Europe feared what they saw as a general dechristianization, or decline of participation in the churches. They saw a decline of faith both amongintellectual elites, as a result of developments in modern thought that challenged traditional Christian faith, and among the working class, as a result of urbanization and industrialization that challenged traditional Christian practice. In the twentieth century, sociologists developed the theory of secularization, according to which a decline in the of religion was regarded as an inevitable aspect of modernization. Such theories were based upon the real decline in the importance of religious participation in Europe. By the end of the century, however, it became evident that religion was again playing a major role both in the public arena and in people’s private lives, particularly outside Western Europe, forcing many scholars to reviset their theories.

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