{"id":56139,"date":"2014-12-22T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=56139"},"modified":"2014-12-04T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:30:46","slug":"david-b-hart-on-the-myth-of-schism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/12\/david-b-hart-on-the-myth-of-schism.html","title":{"rendered":"David B. Hart on The Myth of Schism<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A really fine piece by an Orthodox theologian on the necessity of and prospects for reunion of the Orthodox and Catholic communions<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In any event, my last remark is only this: reunion of the Orthodox and Roman Churches has become an imperative, and time is growing short. I say this because I often suffer from bleak premonitions of the ultimate cultural triumph in the West of a consumerism so devoid of transcendent values as to be, inevitably, nothing but a pervasive and pitiless nihilism. And it is, I think, a particularly soothing and saccharine nihilism, possessing a singular power for absorbing the native energies of the civilization it is displacing without prompting any extravagant alarm at its vacuous barbarisms. And I suspect that the only tools at Christianity\u2019s disposal, as it confronts the rapid and seemingly inexorable advance of this nihilism, will be evangelical zeal and internal unity. I like to think\u2014call it the Sophiologist in me\u2014that the tribulations that Eastern Christianity has suffered under Islamic and communist rule have insulated it from some of the more corrosive pathologies of modernity for a purpose, and endowed it with a special mission to bring its liturgical, intellectual, and spiritual strengths to the aid of the Western Christian world in its struggle with the nihilism that the post-Christian West has long incubated and that now surrounds us all, while yet drawing on the strengths and charisms of the Western church to preserve Orthodoxy from the\u00a0political and cultural frailty that still afflicts Eastern Christianity. Whatever the case, though, we are more in need of one another now than ever. To turn away from ecumenism now may be to turn towards the darkness that is deepening all about us. We are called to be children of light, and I do not think that we will walk very far in the light hereafter except together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amen and amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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