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IN RELATION TO THE UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN HERITAGE AND MODERNITY
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TextPublication details: Johannesburg South Africa South African Theological Seminary September 2018Description: 354 pages PDF A4 Abstract, TOCDissertation note: Doctor of Philosophy in Theology (PhD) South African Theological Seminary September 2018 Dr W R Domeris & Dr Z Vujisic Summary: The end of the communist rule in Eastern Europe facilitated the emergence of the modern renaissance of Orthodox Church Tradition as authority in the post-Soviet society. Adopting the fundamental affirmation of the authority of the universal Christian tradition as that which had been believed "everywhere, always, by all [ubique, semper, ab omnibus] (Pelikan 1971:333), the research investigates a threefold paradigm of "universality-antiquity-consensus" of the Orthodox Tradition in relation to the Ukrainian-Russian heritage and modernity. The conceptualization of Orthodox Church Tradition from a relational perspective, both its nature and forms of expression, are explored within the context of the space between the elements involved and the specific eschatological goal popular in the Eastern Orthodox theology - a personal self-realization via mystical thesis. This new dialectic of Orthodox notion of authority, clothed in the Hellenistic philosophy and the ancient Byzantine constellation of values, is still characterized by a tremendous number of more or less obligatory traditions in church doctrine, liturgy, and ethics. The main body of the thesis provides a critical epistemological analysis of Orthodox Tradition. This tradition has become a significant factor in the social scene and a guiding moral force in almost all spheres of the post-Soviet society. Since the world-historical struggle over the reformation of the church was fundamentally a struggle over the primacy of the Sacred Scripture as opposed to church tradition, the history of ecclesial authority within the Eastern Orthodoxy is briefly discussed. This discussion centres on formative influence that Orthodox Tradition has had on the development of Eastern Christianity. The research suggests that all Christian denominations, which are in constant search for consensus, are in need of more relentless inquiry into our common ecclesiological heritage, and that denominations should ask embarrassing but honest questions of one another. A new methodology of reconciliation, juxtaposed with cooperative didactics of possible consensus, is introduced in the research. It is hoped that this methodology can lead both Orthodox and Protestant Churches out of their confessional caves. Elaborating a theological solution of the indicated problem of authority, the Orthodox idea of the normative faith deposit and unique Christian truth beyond time and space as well as the ecclesiastical triumphalism of some Orthodox claims are closely examined in the research. Taking the perspective of Evangelical theology, different long term trajectories of interaction and consensus between Orthodox East and Protestant West are provided.
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Doctor of Philosophy in Theology (PhD) South African Theological Seminary September 2018 Dr W R Domeris & Dr Z Vujisic
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