This blog post does a vigurous critique of the document titled “The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World”, whose draft is prepared for the coming Great and Holy Synod of Orthodoxy.
by Davor Džalto, Effie Fokas, Brandon Gallaher, Perry Hamalis, Aristotle Papanikolaou, and Gregory Tucker
“The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World” offers a clear reaffirmation of the “dignity and majesty of the human person” (1.1) in Christian doctrine. Moreover, the exalted status of the human person is here grounded in its ultimate vocation to deification. While the human being is brought to perfection beyond this life in God, sanctification begins now, in this world, in relation to others. To this end, the Church recognizes that she must speak with her “prophetic and pastoral voice” and act in the contemporary world to foster that “peace, justice, freedom, fraternity, and love” which characterizes the Kingdom of God.
In order to do full justice to the profound witness to the Gospel offered by this document, further serious reflection and dialogue is required on some of its…
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