Racism as a passion of the soul Bosch, Iosif
International review of mission,
20/May , Letnik:
110, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Racism, in its various manifestations (e.g., philetism, ethnophiletism, racial segregation, racial discrimination, racial extermination) – as a mere sentiment or conviction as well as a systematic ...and organized ideology or politics in its origin – is a spiritual tendency of fallen human nature. The purpose of this systematic‐dogmatic reflection is to prove from the perspective of Orthodox theology that this harmful propensity of the human race is a direct consequence of original sin and particular passions created in the soul. Racism has extended to the present day on a wider social level, and its only cure is mainly ascetic‐spiritual in nature. This spiritual therapy should be performed through and by all the means the church has at its disposal to erase the stigmata of humankind’s primitive negation and ultimate distance from God.
Racism as a passion of the soul Bosch, Iosif
International review of mission,
05/2021, Letnik:
110, Številka:
1
Journal Article, Magazine Article
Abstract
Racism, in its various manifestations (e.g., philetism, ethnophiletism, racial segregation, racial discrimination, racial extermination) – as a mere sentiment or conviction as well as a ...systematic and organized ideology or politics in its origin – is a spiritual tendency of fallen human nature. The purpose of this systematic‐dogmatic reflection is to prove from the perspective of Orthodox theology that this harmful propensity of the human race is a direct consequence of original sin and particular passions created in the soul. Racism has extended to the present day on a wider social level, and its only cure is mainly ascetic‐spiritual in nature. This spiritual therapy should be performed through and by all the means the church has at its disposal to erase the stigmata of humankind’s primitive negation and ultimate distance from God.
Maximos the Confessor Louth, Andrew
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics,
04/2015
Book Chapter
This chapter presents an outline of the life of St Maximos the Confessor to place him in his historical context. The public account of Maximos’ life is dominated by his struggle for Orthodoxy against ...the imperial Christological nostrums, caused by the Synod of Chalcedon in 451. The real beginnings of Maximos’ theological reception are to be found in Palestine, where the commitment of the conciliar Orthodoxy of the Roman Empire was deeply rooted. It is in the ninth century that we are first able to gauge something of the reception of Maximos the Confessor: in the West, with Eriugena, a luminary in the Carolingian court circles, and Anastasius the Librarian in Rome, and in the East, with Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople. The 1960s saw the domination of three major works of the Confessor: von Balthasar's Kosmische Liturgie; Lars Thunberg's Microcosm and Mediator; and Walther Völker's study of Maximos’ spiritual theology.
