Protopresbyter Nikolai Afanasiev‘s Seeing the Mystery of the Church (a Tribute to Father Nikolai Afanasiev)

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Optimistic and pessimistic perception of the world and the New Testament consciousness opposes tragic perception of the world which excluded excessive optimism and ultimate pessimism. Church found itself in a world in which it shall dwell to the incidence of Christ in glory. It is confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord, those it confess that everything belong to its. (1 Cor. 3, 22). The eschatological perception of the world, Church dwells in him and that as a mission which it has received from Christ to work in the fields of old or evil eons. And until we come to definitive demarcation of the old and the new eon, the world will be under the sign of God‘s love. God sent his Son into the world to those who believe in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Originally goodness and beauty that God give to creation by creating it are in the world, but do not belong to it, rather to the Church in Christ. The tragedy however dismiss, and it is resolved in the Church by the victory already occurred. This is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith (1 Jn. 5, 4).

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еschatological character, eschatological perception, two eons (αἰών) – the old one and the new one, Church and Empire, Christ and the Emperor, Christians and the world, reconciliation, cosmos, eon (αἰών) of evil, dynamics of time, civitas christianorum, Christ‘s victory, a new creature.

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