Post by Why don't the orthodox think a on Dec 11, 2023 20:37:41 GMT -8
Elena Zhosul, director of the Chair of Journalism and Public Relations at the Russian Orthodox University in Moscow, has written one of the most interesting articles I have read lately. She explains how the question of women's role in the Church is viewed among the Russian Orthodox. And, to tell the truth, she confirms an idea that I have had since I had the opportunity to enter the paths of Orthodox Christians while leaving Protestantism behind. Namely, that theological liberalism, modernism, has practically not affected them at all. I don't know if you are fully aware of the blessing that such a circumstance entails , but I must admit that I feel a healthy envy, if envy can ever be healthy.
I quote some phrases from Elena: The so-called "women's question" is not part of the public ecclesial and social debate in Russia, simply because there is no need to rais no particular “status” for women in the Church is reconsidered, nor is the insufficiency of their rights or opportunities confirmed, nor is their role in liturgical practice vindicated, beyond that which they already have during liturgical services. in singing and readin Job Function Email List Feminism is, as a phenomenon, foreign to the Russian Orthodox female population. There is no hostility, but this controversy simply does not belong to the area of our life. Thank God this disease has not spread amongno one thinks of claiming particular rights such as free access for women to the priestly ministry; that of the female priesthood for us is a completely unthinkable category.
And, to support this position, we could add many theological arguments. You have read well. It occurs to NO ONE to ask for the female priesthood within the Russian Orthodox Church . And I suspect the same thing happens in the rest of the Orthodox churches in the world. It is not that they need to settle the issue with a magisterial pronouncement, as has happened in the Catholic Church. They don't even discuss it. You will admit that it is still curious that among many Catholics - mostly heterodox - they continue to insist on an issue that Pope John Paul II, as Pope Francis recently recalled, definitively closed by means of an apostolic letter , while the Orthodox, without Pope, they live their faith happily, at least in this matter, without needing to fight with Tradition . Elena Zhosul goes so far as to call feminism a “disease . ” There will be no shortage of Catholic women who will accuse her of being sexist for saying that, but I suspect she won't give a damn. If anyone thinks that Orthodox women are some kind of zero to the left, they should read the entire article.
I quote some phrases from Elena: The so-called "women's question" is not part of the public ecclesial and social debate in Russia, simply because there is no need to rais no particular “status” for women in the Church is reconsidered, nor is the insufficiency of their rights or opportunities confirmed, nor is their role in liturgical practice vindicated, beyond that which they already have during liturgical services. in singing and readin Job Function Email List Feminism is, as a phenomenon, foreign to the Russian Orthodox female population. There is no hostility, but this controversy simply does not belong to the area of our life. Thank God this disease has not spread amongno one thinks of claiming particular rights such as free access for women to the priestly ministry; that of the female priesthood for us is a completely unthinkable category.
And, to support this position, we could add many theological arguments. You have read well. It occurs to NO ONE to ask for the female priesthood within the Russian Orthodox Church . And I suspect the same thing happens in the rest of the Orthodox churches in the world. It is not that they need to settle the issue with a magisterial pronouncement, as has happened in the Catholic Church. They don't even discuss it. You will admit that it is still curious that among many Catholics - mostly heterodox - they continue to insist on an issue that Pope John Paul II, as Pope Francis recently recalled, definitively closed by means of an apostolic letter , while the Orthodox, without Pope, they live their faith happily, at least in this matter, without needing to fight with Tradition . Elena Zhosul goes so far as to call feminism a “disease . ” There will be no shortage of Catholic women who will accuse her of being sexist for saying that, but I suspect she won't give a damn. If anyone thinks that Orthodox women are some kind of zero to the left, they should read the entire article.