March 28 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

Sunday, March 28th, 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.

Ecumenical Relations and Relations with Other Faiths

At no time in human history are the issues of ecumenical and interfaith relations more important than now. What is the stance of the Church? What does it call us to do and be in our relationship to the great variety of Christian churches? What does it invite us to do in relationship to the women and men of other faiths and to what end? What is the Orthodox teaching about the relationship with the Jewish faith and community, the community into which Jesus Christ was born? Does the Orthodox Church have a special relationship to Islam, the faith with which it has shared a landscape since the sixth century? On what ground ought we stand “for the life of the world” given we understand the Spirit of God to “be everywhere present”? 

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

You may also connect through davidgoa.ca

Up Coming Schedule

Sunday, March 21, 2:00-3:30 MTS - War, Peace, and Violence

Sunday, March 28, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Ecumenical Relations and Relations with Other Faiths

Sunday, April 4, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Orthodoxy and Human Rights

Sunday, April 11, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Science, Technology, and the Natural World

Sunday, April 18, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Conclusion, “What do we take from For the Life of the World ?” Does it speak to all Orthodox Christians and beyond the boundaries of Orthodox churches?

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.”