Church Narratives and Secular Ideology Should the Orthodox Christians “catch up” with the Second Vatican

Abstract

The article includes critical comments on some of the provisions of theological liberal Orthodoxy. The author’s viewpoint is based on the criticism of the ideas of Church secularization (New Reformation) in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. The author considers the attempts to put church sermon under the secular agenda to be destructive, while such agenda has privileged, hegemonic status in modern culture; the author considers it erroneous to call to the Orthodox believers to follow the Catholic way of modernization. In the article the author rejects both the open modernistic concept of catching up development in its religious implementation, and the tendencies of retro-modernism related to the “new theology”, – in particular, to the “theology of origins” and the “theology of coming back”. The author characterized Rome Catholic Church modernization as deviation from the Catholic mission and de-catechization, and considers it necessary to restore the proper semantics of the “modernistic crisis” concept. He also states that in general the format of church “modernistic crisis” discussion is now obsolete, and now the issue of secularism and secular modernism crisis is more relevant, - exactly this crisis will constitute the priority subject of analysis I the nearest future.