Dogmă și esperiență în viața Părinților de la Sinodul I Ecumenic, reflectate în cultul Bisericii

Abstract

The dogma risks becoming distant for people’s life, cold and incomprehensible, if it is not based on cult and is not transformed in doxology. In Orthodoxy the cult becomes doxology, and the dogmatic tradition becomes worshipful tradition, doxological, accessible and strongly present within Christians’ collective and personal life. This relation, between dogma and cult, dogma and Liturgy avoids the separation between the rational aspect and the liturgical content of dogmas, as within our dogma coexists in harmony both the rational aspect and the mystic one. Although lex orandi does not replace theology, however, the essential aspects of Orthodoxy have been experimented in the ecclesiastical environment by lex orandi, before being structured on concepts. Thus, the Liturgy becomes, above all, the existential crucible of theology, being in fact an embodied theology. The theological reflection was always nourished in East by Church’s living tradition, by its Liturgy, which created the environment of a Christian life, where all new teachings which appeared were clarified and all heresies destroyed, precisely by this ecclesiastical life and not by simple words, or by a Christian system separated from Church’s experience and finally void of life.