SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF LIQUID MODERNITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19478600Keywords:
mission, church, liquid modernity, destructuring, communityAbstract
Some Considerations on the Concept of Liquid Modernity from the Perspective of the Orthodox Theology.
In this study we propose to analyze the concept of liquid Church, which is provisionally defined as the deinstitutionalized Christian religion that still presents some resemblance to the Christian Church as an expression of communion with Christ. Resulting from the distinction between early or solid modernity and late or liquid modernity, in our opinion, this concept offers the Orthodox missionary possibilities for interpreting and evaluating the forms of religious praxis that we encounter outside the institutionalized church as manifestations of the existence of the church. Within these aspects, the question that imposes itself to be resolved lies in the occurrence with which the liquid church proposes itself as a Christian ecclesiological space, as well as the specification of its main characteristics that recommend it as a church and even more so as a church that fulfills the commandments of Christ. As such, we propose to create a syntagm of liquid church as a variation of Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of liquid modernity in the context of the missionary work that the Church of Christ has to carry out in the dynamics of the transition from late modernity to postmodernity where, according to the directions generated by the ecumenical movement, Churches seek to develop the most appropriate missionary activities, such as that relating to understanding the dimensions of suffering, in order to preserve the world in its natural ecclesiological space.
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