WSPÓŁCZESNE ROZUMIENIE TRADYCJI W TEOLOGII PRAWOSŁAWNEJ A KATECHIZM METROPOLITY FILARETA
THE CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF TRADITION IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY VS. METROPOLITAN PHILARET’S CHRISTIAN CATECHISM

Summary/Abstract: Over 190 years have passed since the first edition of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Catechism („Prostrannyj Hristianskij Katehizis Pravoslavnoj Kafoliceskoj Vostocnoj Cerkvi”), and no new official explanation of faith have been elaborated, which resulted in a discrepancy between the view of Tradition between the contemporary orthodox theology and the definitions and explanations contained in the Catechism. The article brings the reader closer to the modem three-level understanding of Tradition in the Orthodox Church and the relation between Tradition and Scripture. It also showsdifferent forms of Tradition that have always been passed on by the Church, and confronts them with the definitions presented in the Catechism, in order to show the need to develop a new explanation on tradition. The Polish edition of the Catechism in 2001 omitted the introductory part on Tradition, which proves that the editor was aware of how out-of-date the presented knowledge was.

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