Ciprian Iulian Toroczkai, GEORGES FLOROVSKY ON HUMAN RIGHTS? AN ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, European Journal of Science and Theology, April 2019, Vol.15, No.2, 135-147
This paper analyses the extent to which we could approach a human rights perspective in G. Florovsky‘s work. The first part describes his conception relating to man‘s nature anddestiny, a conception derived from the patristic ideas on the creation of the world in general and of man in particular. The second part of the study focuses on the relationship between Christians and the contemporary world, respectively on how the Orthodox Church should promote its permanent values in a (post)modern world. Finally, we tried to see the importance of this conception in current Orthodox theology, meaning if and to what extent it can represent a way of dialogue between Orthodox theology and the principles of a secularized modern Occidental world
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