Ecclesiological Aspects in the Theology of Father Justin Popovitch
Ecclesiological Aspects in the Theology of Father Justin Popovitch

Summary/Abstract: In this study I have tried to show that Father Justin’s ecclesiological reflections are concretized in the theological meditations of the Christ-Saviour, the head of theChurch, where the Church has its being from, which determined it to affirm the identity between the Church and the dead and resurrected Christ, elevated to heaven; in accord with the patristic choir of Church Tradition, the Serbian dogmatist speaks of the Church as the Body and icon of Christ and interprets the the andrical nature of the Church in analogy with the divine and human beings of the incarnate Lord. Inhis ecclesiological meditations, we discover a preeminence of the divine nature ofthe Church towards its understanding as a sociological reality of the people gatheredin the same faith, the external structures of the Church playing an almost inconsistent role in Father Justin’s ecclesiology. We then emphasized that the relationshipof people with Christ is central to the thinking of the Serbian theologian, because inthe ecclesial Body of the Incarnate Lord, people are saved through the sacramentaland pnevmatical life of the Church. It continues the soteriological work of Christin history through the deifying work of the Spirit, its living members participatingin the being of the Church through the mysterious incorporation in Christ, which isidentical to the ecclesial incorporation, Christians becoming christophors

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