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A MOVEABLE FEAST: LIFE IN THE CHURCH AS EDUCATION AND CELEBRATION
A MOVEABLE FEAST: LIFE IN THE CHURCH AS EDUCATION AND CELEBRATION

Author(s): Dmitry I. Makarov
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: Church life; hypostasis of ecclesiastical existence; J. Zizioulas; word; spirit; feast; culture; logocentrism; Saints as heroes; liturgy; missionary liturgy;

Summary/Abstract: Life in the Church, taken in all the complexity of its interconnections, is a moveable feast. But there exists a misconception of the Church among the young as of something dull. To overcome this situation, we must be open to the young and to correspondingly transform our juvenile policy. By disclosing tothe young the plenitude of meanings of the Orthodox Liturgy (through missionary liturgy), of Orthodox poetry and culture, by holding seminars discussions like, e.g., The Meaningful Cinema with the aim of showing some real parallels between the Orthodox faith and the great masters’ search for truth in mind, we may be instrumental in turning the young people all over different countries into a part of our sobornost and in their attaining of their own hypostases of ecclesiastical existence (Metropolitan John Zizioulas).

  • Issue Year: XXI/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 199-205
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English