Man’s Mission as Mediator for the Entire World according to Saint Maximus Confessor’s Theology

  1. Lemma
  2. Man’s Mission as Mediator for the Entire World according to Saint Maximus Confessor’s Theology
  3. English
  4. Delli, Eudoxie
  5. Key thinkers - Orthodox Anthropology - Natural and the supernatural - Ecology and the environment
  6. 28-1-2017
  7. Sonea, (Fr) Cristian-Sebastian [Author]. Man’s Mission as Mediator for the Entire World according to Saint Maximus Confessor’s Theology
  8. International Journal of Orthodox Theology
  9. Mediation-Mediator - ecotheology - Maximus the Confessor - Chalcedonian Christology
    1. <p style="text-align: justify;">Sonea, (Fr) C.-S. (2012). Man’s Mission as <em>Mediator</em> for the Entire World according to Saint Maximus Confessor’s Theology.<em> International Journal of Orthodox Theology,</em> <em>3:3</em>, 175-193</p>

    1. Fr Cristian-Sebastian Sonea argues that in modern utilitarian society in which consumerism prevails, man is reduced to a mere biological existence in which the consecutive substitutes of immortality disappear. Modern man has to rediscover who and what it is, looking beyond the self to One who created the human person. In this perspective, he analyses the missionary dimensions of man’s worldly life in the light of the Divine revelation. Based mainly on Maximus the Confessor’s thought, he states that man has to carry out as mediator of five types of different classifications of the created being. More precisely, man’s responsibility consists in mediating the union between:

      1. Male and Female,

      2. Paradise and Inhabited world,

      3. Heaven and Earth,

      4. Intelligible and sensible world,

      5. God and His Creation.

      This work of mediation is a condition for achieving personal deification and the transfiguration of the entire creation, in and through man. Out of this mediation, the author derives ideas about man’s relations with the others (relationship of male and female in marriage and family life) and with the entire creation (ecotheology) based on the pattern of the hypostatic union specific to Chalcedonian Christology. As he concludes, the Homo Religiosus is sent in the world as a Misionarius Christi.