Mit'ko A.E. —
To the question on the modern social mission of the Church: practical aspect
// Sociodynamics. – 2019. – ¹ 6.
– P. 7 - 12.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2019.6.29742
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/pr/article_29742.html
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Abstract: The subject of this research is the organization of social ministry in the eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church. The article analyzes the concept of social mission as a particular type of church ministry formed at the intersection of missionary activities and social work. The unity of target of missionary activities and social work allows determining this type of ministry. The institutionalization of the target of social mission is conducted through application of various criteria. Special attention is given to the role of the diverse forms and methods of social mission as the additional criteria for segmenting the target of social mission. The research is carried out via the methods of hermeneutics as the foundation of missiological methodology. Within the framework of this research, the author analyzes the regulatory documents of the Russian Orthodox Church. The scientific novelty lies in segmentation of the destination field of social mission. For the first time, the categories of social work recipients are presented as the target of social mission. This article reveals the prospects for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of missiology and social diaconia. Social ministry of the Church is viewed in the context of missiological goal setting.
Mit'ko A.E. —
Mission Addressee's Research Field
// Culture and Art. – 2019. – ¹ 6.
– P. 16 - 21.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2019.6.29950
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/camag/article_29950.html
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Abstract: Christianity proceeds from the ontologically defined unity of the human race as the addressee of the mission, but humanity as the addressee of the mission is not identical with the people of God in the person of the Church. On the contrary, the Church and humanity, throughout its history and to its end, are tragically disestablished. The addressee of the mission is not identical with the Church and is opposed to it as the outside world. Initially, the mission of the apostles is addressed to the external addressee, so the external mission is the original form of Christian missionary service. The article discusses the concept of the mission addressee through the ontological definition, as well as through its attitude toward the boundaries of the Church. The situation from the apostolic age to the present day shows the conventionality of the division of the mission into an external and internal one. Initially, the Church consists of people united by faith based on the living experience of communication and presence. In this regard, the article shows that any addressee of the testimony of this faith is an external addressee in relation to the apostolic mission.
Mit'ko A.E. —
Mission Actor's Research Field
// Culture and Art. – 2019. – ¹ 5.
– P. 1 - 7.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2019.5.29688
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/camag/article_29688.html
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Abstract: The renewal of Orthodox Missiology in late XX - early XXI centuries happened mainly as an academic discipline. Along with that, results, obtained in the process of practical missionary ministry, cumulative integrated into theoretical mission studies. A gradual accumulation of empirical results took the Missiology to the qualitatively new theoretical level of research work. The need for a missiological actualization of ecclesiological problems of theology is associated with a high degree of dynamics of missionary service as going out the boundaries of the Church. In the article, the example, characterizing the specifics of the given process, is observed - actively used in this period, the concept of the missionary field, which precedes the transformation of the subject area of missionary activity in the research field of missiology. The subject-object relationship model is not applicable to missionary service, as it is implemented rather in the subject-subject paradigm. This determines the choice of the terminology of this study. The subject of the mission is expressed by the concept of the actor, and its object by the concept of the addressee of the mission, which determines the configuration of the research field of missiology.