Petraru, Gheorghe (2006) Missionary Theology in the Theological University Education of the Romanian Orthodox Church. International Review of Mission, 95 (378). pp. 383-389. ISSN 1758-6631
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Missionary theology in the faculties of Orthodox theology in Romania has a long history that goes back to the third decade of the 20th century. The university missiological courses of that time were connected to the courses in the European faculties, whilst remaining conformed to the missionary relaities of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Therefore, courses and books from the inter-war years treated mission as evangelization, and the history of Christian missions dealt with ecumenism and the ecumenical conferences of Faith and Order and Life and Work, plus social philanthropic work in the Orhtodox Church as well as in the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant churches. A main missionary activity of the Orthodox Church was to defend itself from neo-Protestant Christian proselytism. In addition, the church's approach to culture and politics was a matter of debate. With the instauration of the atheist and totalitarian communist regime, and its bad and hostile attitude toward the Orthodox Church and other Christian confessions and associations, missionary activites were brutally interrupted and missiological courses becamse maily concerned with the study of religious sects, and how the Orthodox Church could defend itself from the neo-Protestant proselytism coming from the West.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Full issue number is 378-379. |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory C Types of Christian Ministry > Missionary formation and theological education D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > Europe G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox |
| Divisions: | Central Europe > Romania |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2018 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2022 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1062 |
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