BASIS FOR THE HESYCHASTIC CHARACTER OF ORTHODOX MONASTICISM
/VÝCHODISKA PRO HESYCHASTICKÝ CHARAKTER PRAVOSLAVNÉHO MNIŠSTVÍ/

Michal DVORACEK

doctorand, Orthodox Theological Faculty, University of Presov in Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, seagul.m@email.cz, 00420776371611

Abstract

Orthodox Christians may very well perceive, with what love also the Western Christians are turning to Christ today and how much and sincerely they love Him. As a significant activity that the Western Christians get extensively involved today should also be mentioned the philanthropy. However, the Orthodox Christians can not accept that interpretation, which the Western Christians present about the Christ's Gospel, is consistent with the teaching of Christ, His holy Apostles, holy Fathers and sacred ecumenical councils. Without the Orthodox dogma and Orthodox faith it is not possible to achieve the Orthodox piousness and life. If we accept some of the bases of the Western theology such as the primacy, proceeding of the Holy Spirit or the created form of God's grace, then our spiritual asceticism and experience of theosis would have to inevitably be transformed into mere gymnastics and anthropocentric ethical activity. The Orthodox Church holds such a view that a prerequisite for achieving the Church unity is not only the doctrinal consensus on certain bases, but it is primarily a practical acceptance of the Orthodox, Theanthropocentric, Christocentric and Triadocentric spirit in the dogmas, religiousness, ecclesiology, canon law, pastoral theology as well as in art and asceticism.

Keywords

Christianity, Catholicism, primacy, Gregory Palamas, saint, ecumenical council, eclesiology, theology, God

(Language: czech)

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