The Social Perception of Monastic Life between Falsity and Reality in Contemporary World
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Technium Social Sciences Journal
Vol. 13, 514-525, November 2020
ISSN: 2668-7798
SOCIAL SCIENCES JOUR NAL www.techniumscience.com
The social perception of monastic life between falsity and
reality in contemporary world
Lecturer Ph. D. Nina Stinescu
Ovidius University of Constanta, Faculty of Theology, Constanta, Romania
nina.stanescu l3@gmail.com
Abstract. Analysis of the misled mundane perceptions of monasteries and monastic life, and
finding ways to change this concepts to the appropriate social reality in order to improve relations
between the mundane and the monastic population, and also to increase the role of monasteries
in moral and spiritual development of adolescents and youth. The key to this problem is
communion, meaning together-living, together-working and together-thinking. The great
revelation of Christianity was and is that the community comes first, either the big or the small
communtiy. Great empires have induced the illusion that the great things, the secrets and the
keys to our lives they are somewhere above or outside the small circle of our lives.
Keywords. social perception,the choice of monastic life, increasing role of monasteries moral
and spiritual development, the existence of a discrepancy,social reality of monasteries secular
society
1.Introduction
Today one speaks, at least as much as in the past, about the role of monasticism in the
life of the church. The assertions are so diverse and contradictory that people, if not
sufficiently cleared, end up at least bulversated or even negative in the treatment of
monasticism as its constituent element. The discussions are being held around an older idea,
intensely valued in our communist period, by scientific and dialectical materialistic thinking
and has been reaffirmed in recent years, especially in the west, questioning or even denying
the necessity of the existence of monasticism as part of the Church. The last forty years have
marked a significant revision of the perspective on Christian ascetism and monasticism. In the
past, most often, interpretations followed confessional lines. Today, postmodern criticism
seeks to understand monasticism that produced by taking it out of the environment that
created it-the Christian Church.[1]
In a society in which the perception of reality is more credible on television, in the
newspapers of the time than the living of our own deeds, the monk struggles in silence to
keep the living flame of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Through monasticism, the Church
keeps her body vigorous,[2] lives, grows, and gets perfect in the spirit of the gospel.
The rationalization of the spiritual has led to the decline of religion and the acceptance
of a new morality - a permissive one.[3] As a result of the new organization on technical and
rational principles, the local traditions lose their significance. Society is becoming more
insensitive, and sensitivity to peers, interpersonal care is taking up less space in our lives.
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