THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY FROM AN ORTHODOX MORAL PERSPECTIVE
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY FROM AN ORTHODOX MORAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: God’s thoughts and actions are not the same with the worldly ones (Isaiah 55, 8-9), proving the smallness of this world’s wisdom (I Cor. 3, 18-20). By virtue of these aspects, the vocation of the nation always remains the same, and its role is a durable one, reason for which God does not cancel it but is permanently updating it, making it appropriate for the spiritual degree in which its representatives are. The continuous and immutable advancement of the spiritual beings towards God through the three continuous phases: purification, illumination, completeness, brings about the endowment of the nation with new graces without making the old ones disappear. Thus, the nation itself becomes a spiritual thesaurus summating values offered by God, values which are intimately revealed in the nature of those who share their life with Christ’s.

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