"Truth, for the Orthodox Christian, is not a set of apodictic and propositional assertions. It is living in the world but not of the world. It is not a set of facts. It is a realm as Fr. Seraphim Rose brilliantly sets forth in the introduction to his book Nihilism. How to willingly, lovingly abide in this realm is the same challenge today as always. But even more so it seems today, as we are overwhelmed with data, with supposedly new and exciting ideas and solutions, and with what appears, on the surface at least, to be a new level of divisiveness in our society over problems and solutions.
Ideology is a specifically modern phenomenon in which the experience of alienation rises to the level of a social and political theory, to the extent that the only means of salvation becomes a total transformation of society through political and social control. It is grounded in the gnostic notion that God messed up when He created, but we can re-imagine ourselves as creators. By harnessing the power of science, we can take control of our lives and of history and build the perfect world, free of disease, poverty, injustice, even death. No alienation ever again."
How Should the Orthodox Christian Relate to the World? - Orthodox Reflections
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