james_krotov ([info]james_krotov) wrote,
@ 2007-10-16 09:19:00
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History of the World
I am fond of Church history because I think Church history is not the history of the Church institutions but the story of the whole humankind. This history consists of two symmetrical parts. Before Christ people seeked One God through multiplicity of deities. In Christ this One God responded to our quest. The second act of world history began. God is now in quest for united humankind and building it through innumerable ways and means.

Christians often tend to think that the Church is this united humankind. Should it be so, the history ended a long time ago. God wants to save all not only in a numerical sense. United humankind is still absent, because personality is still lacking in humans. God is co-working with people to activate personal potential in everyone had to restore unity of humankind not as something similar to a huge snowball but as a union of loving personalities.




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[info]777_stranger
2007-11-03 02:37 pm UTC (link)
The history of the Church, at least of the Russian Orthodox Church, goes in circles. You've posted Archiep. Antony's letter of 1909 to N. Berdyaev. Should we change some names (Antony to Alexis, "Союз русского народа" на "Наши", etc), we would get a contemporary document. Naturally all analogies have limitations; however, the circling is visible. What do you think?

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