Thanks for posting this. Fr. Oleksa has done some basic thinking and work around "culture" and world view. It's a basic piece of the puzzle on what it means to *be* Christian in modern secular America, though Fr. Michael I don't believe takes it to where it needs to go.
In this video, Fr. Michael mentions one of Schmemann's failure paths of how to *be* Orthodox in America (i.e. the tendency to an idealization of a particular past). I was hoping Fr. Michael would address the other failure path, the one where an individual/parish/jurisdiction/church compromises with the (in our case secular) culture, and ends up being indistinguishable from it except on the surface.
Thanks for posting this. Fr. Oleksa has done some basic thinking and work around "culture" and world view. It's a basic piece of the puzzle on what it means to *be* Christian in modern secular America, though Fr. Michael I don't believe takes it to where it needs to go.
ReplyDeleteIn this video, Fr. Michael mentions one of Schmemann's failure paths of how to *be* Orthodox in America (i.e. the tendency to an idealization of a particular past). I was hoping Fr. Michael would address the other failure path, the one where an individual/parish/jurisdiction/church compromises with the (in our case secular) culture, and ends up being indistinguishable from it except on the surface.