FAMILIA CREŞTINĂ ŞI EDUCAŢIA TINERILOR. PROVOCĂRI ŞI ŞANSE
THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY AND THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUTH. CHALLENGES AND CHANCES

Summary/Abstract: The year 2016 was declared by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church as “the solemn year of the religious education of the Orthodox Christian youth”, which is meant to emphasize young people’seducation and their steering towards assuming such everlasting values as those represented by Family, Church, and School. Before talking about fundamental institutions (family, church, school), we must mention the fact that God is an eternal factor and source of education, He is the “Alpha and Omega” of the pedagogical act. God not only created heaven and earth, but he also founded both the family and the Church. Education is not an exclusively human act oreffort, but the result of divine and human synergy. In other words, it is a theandric act. Those who tried to “educate” without God failed miserably. The oldest and strongest human institution is the family, the epitome of creation and an expression of love and of providential communion with God. The family has often been called “the little church”, or “the domestic church” because of its community aspect and the atmosphere of holiness it must cultivate.

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