Open AccessTHE HISTORY OF THE THEOLOGY AS RESTORATION OF THE MAN FOR A POSTMODERN CULTURE: THE VISION OF FATHER PROFESSOR DUMITRU STĂNILOAE
Author(s) -
Mihai HIMCINSCHI
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
icoana credinţei
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2501-3386
pISSN - 2393-137X
DOI - 10.26520/icoana.2022.15.8.10.26520/icoana.2022.15.8.5-13
Subject(s) - faith , postmodernism , eternity , theodicy , philosophy , theology , religious studies , jesus christ , epistemology
The man's deification, or the restoration of human nature, historically fallen under the slavery of the sin and the death; it is not possible except through the embodied Son of God, at the fulfilment of time (Gal. 4: 4). In this demarche, history plays a positive role, for the man is born in it. Namely, the man becomes a historical personality, and also in history continues the sanctifying dynamism of the ecclesiastic life. History is not a prison – in an Origenistic sense –, which the man struggles to escape from, for the man has Christ, the God-Man and the ManGod, Who opens to the believers the perspective of eternity through the history's gate. With such a courageous initiative of an organic synthesis between history and theology, Father Dumitru Stăniloae consolidated the Church's faith when facing the danger of the Bolshevik atheism during World War Two by promoting the idea of restoration of history, of the creation, and the man through Jesus Christ