April 18 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

Sunday, April 18th, 2:00-3:30 MTS

You are invited to join a series of reflections and conversations with Andrew Bingham & David Goa. Kindly pass along to those who may be interested.

IX. Conclusion

“Let us the faithful rejoice, having this anchor of hope.”

We have come to the concluding session of thinking together “For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.” We invite you to speak about what you have taken from our study and thinking together. What in the document spoke in a particularly compelling way? What, perhaps, did you expect to read and did not find in the document or in our thinking together? How does this document speak to your stance and ways of addressing the many and varied issues we face in our moment in history and in our various cultural contexts? We invite you to speak in a fulsome way without hesitation. This session will not be made public. How our times together sits in your mind and heart, personally and within your communities of commitment , are important and will inform our on-going work.

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An electronic copy of the book is available at: https://www.goarch.org/social-ethos

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You are invited to join a series of reflections and conversations with Andrew Bingham and David Goa on For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.

“For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church” is the title of a recent publication edited by David Bentley Hart and John Chryssavgis under the auspices and with the blessing of His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch.

This document, long awaited, is a welcome opportunity to discuss Orthodox “social doctrine in terms appropriate to modern reality.” It provides general parameters, avoids nebulous abstractions and sweeping generalizations, simplistic, pietistic, or legalistic pronouncements. Anchored in the Gospel it calls us to consider and think about major issues facing the life of our fragile and struggling world with the mind of Christ, free of fear, ideological preoccupations and to do so both for our own healing and for “for the life of the world.”