THE UNDERSTANDING OF TRADITION IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
Abstract
Th is article traces the evolution of understanding of tradition in church council documents and Russian Orthodox theology. It is shown that its backbone is the church legend which can be understood as “the frozen unchangeable store of the faith” or as “the living and developing thought”. Th e later opinion is dominant in the Russian Orthodox theology today. In connection with this idea, the article reveals patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev)’s views. He believed that the eastern Christianity should keep to “the apostle’s norm of the faith” and at the same time the theology should be consistent in updating it. Th e combination of “eternal and divine” and “temporary and human” is the essence of the orthodoxy attitude to tradition. It resists both the conservatism which keeps to the unchanging church and the modernism which tends to devalue the essence of the legend.
Keywords:
tradition, legend, conservatism, modernism, creativity, continuity, church, orthodoxy, theology, eternal, temporary
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