Misiune și secularizare în viziunea lui Anastasie Yannoulatos
Mission and secularisation in the vision of the theologian Anastasios Yannoulatos

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to emphasize the requirements of the Christian mission from an Orthodox Christian perspective in the context of the multi-pluralist and secularized contemporary world. Mission is an essential expression of Orthodox self-conscience, shout out for the fulfilment of God’s wil “on earth as it is in heaven”. Secularization, globalization, technologization, virtualization of society requires a responsible response from ourselves, as Christians. First of all, if we believe that human life is a gift from God, an invaluable gift, then we have to defend it from the beginning and the end of it. We cannot accept, for example, that the cost-effectiveness of the health system is based on eliminating those whose physicians do not give them any chance. That is why I think it is important to have the strategies of human rights founded on the dignity of the human person, which is created in the image of God. Then the economy, like politics, must serve directly to man. And when I say to man, I do not mean the few people, the strong and the rich, but the most of the population, even the most fragile of us. And the most helpless man must have the chance of a dignified existence in European society. That is why we, as Christians, must to support, at European level, a social economy which main purpose is the real welfare and policies based on serious social investments that take care of those in need. In my opinion, through education and culture, we can form Christians, and the Church and its mission play an important role in this area.

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