ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD AND THE IMPACT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHURCH OF TOMORROW

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https://doi.org/10.25247/paralellus.2025.v16n39.p283-302p

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Anthropology, Anthropological paradigms, Church, Co-evolution, Culture, Natureza, Nicaea, Tecchnologies

Abstract

Anthropological changes in the contemporary world and the impact on the evolution of the Church of tomorrow. The Council of Nicaea marks the transition from the Church of the beginnings, forbidden, in the process of organizing ecclesial structures according to the specifics of Christianity, towards an institutional Church, as a dialogue partner with the other social institutions, in the game of power specific to the geopolitics world. This first establishment of the landmarks of unity and dialogue on the path of synodality is the model that has proven its validity throughout the history of the Church. The historical church has known the schisms generated by Arianism, the anathema schism of 1054, the schisms that generate the disintegration of unity in the wake of the Reformation, and the Christianity passes from an illicit religion to an official religion, from a religion of the European-Mediterranean cultural environment to a missionary religion that reaches all continents. It begins by inculturating the values of the Gospel in a pagan world, it knows the dominant position within European civilization, to retreat in the face of secularization and the gradual desacralization of culture. At the present time we are on the threshold of changing anthropological paradigms. The co-evolution of man-nature, man-culture and man-technologies of the digitized world has consequences on the individual and on society, situating the spirituality in a new context and in new forms of cultural manifestation. The ecclesial structures will adapt by virtue of the plasticity, the ability to adapt to the new that it has shown since Antiquity, going through the medieval, modern and contemporary era. The model of unity in diversity and of the synodality initiated at the first Ecumenical Council in Nicaea remains the only pattern through which the Christian Church will manifest its catholicity and missionary-ecumenical function in the world of tomorrow.

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Author Biography

  • Alexander Buzalic, Università Babeș-Bolyai di Cluj-Napoca / Romania

    University professor at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Greek Catholic priest. The main publications are in the field of theology, primarily dogmatic and systematic theology, ecclesiology, and anthropological analyses of the relationship between religion and culture in the context of globalization processes and contact between different cultures. E-mail: alexandru.buzalic@ubbcluj.ro

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2025-12-23

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BUZALIC, Alexander. ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD AND THE IMPACT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHURCH OF TOMORROW. PARALELLUS Journal of Religion Studies - UNICAP, Recife, PE, Brasil, v. 16, n. 39, p. 283–302, 2025. DOI: 10.25247/paralellus.2025.v16n39.p283-302p. Disponível em: https://www1.unicap.br/ojs/index.php/paralellus/article/view/3500.. Acesso em: 28 dec. 2025.

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