MESAJUL ÎNVĂȚĂTORULUI CREȘTIN-ORTODOX – DE LA MAGISTER DIXIT LA AUTORITATEA IUBIRII SMERITE
THE MESSAGE OF THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN TEACHER – FROM MAGISTER DIXIT TO THE AUTHORITY OF HUMBLE LOVE.

Author(s): CRISTIAN MARIUS DIMA
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Education, Theology and Religion, School education, Educational Psychology, Pedagogy
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: religious education; non-formal education; spiritual motherhood and fatherhood;
Summary/Abstract: Exploiting the feeling of freedom and the sense of belonging to the society of knowledge pedagogically have determined, on the one hand, an unprecedented emergence of religious experiences in the sphere of informal and non-formal education in the Romanian society, starting from the spiritual recognition of the famous “abbots” or “gerontes” in Romanian or Athonite monasticism, but also in regular Orthodox churches, to the conjunctural role of all kinds of “guru” and “spiritual masters”, in the lives of many people with a religious conscience or simple spiritual zeal. This paper aims to identify the main actors in the Orthodox Church who are able to counteract, outside the family, the effects of self-referentiality and educational imposture – threatening silhouettes appearing on the horizon of the Romanian people’s education (either from communism or from consumerism), to denounce the political correctness and the mechanisms of manipulation or disorientation and, last but not least, to enhance the proportional support of the pedagogical role, the authority and immutable values disseminated, that the teachers of the nation and, above all, the teachers of the faith – the Religion teacher, the father confessor, the spiritual father, mother and brother – have in a person’s thinking, feeling and making decisions travelling through history, towards the eschaton.

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