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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">11770</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Opportunists of Heaven and the Experiences of Communion. God as a Label</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>«Оппортунисты неба» и опыт общности веры. Бог как этикетка</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pop</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Поп</surname><given-names>Родика</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Superior counselor for the Iasi County Department for Culture</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">Консультант высшей категории Департамента культуры в жудеце Яссы</bio><email>rodica31pop@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Ясский университет имени А.И. Кузы</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2016-02-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>02</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">NO2 (2016)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№2 (2016)</issue-title><fpage>52</fpage><lpage>63</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2016-09-12"><day>12</day><month>09</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2016, Pop R.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2016, Поп Р.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Pop R.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Поп Р.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11770">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11770</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">Even though God’s name is very present in both the academic and political discourse, the reality is that God seems to have indeed «died», as Nietzsche, Sartre or Camus once said, because between the message and the finality of the authors’ endeavors there is a gap that places the world under the sign of chaos and pain. I am scanning the degree of honesty of some intellectuals who set the norms of the time, and some politicians who declare themselves Christians and insert in the ideology of their party Christian concepts and values. I have called them «opportunists of Heaven» because these intellectuals have transformed God into a subject of analysis as any other, and the politician utters His name to gain poll success. We see them climbing on the shoulders of God in order to define their careers: the intellectual wants to be accepted by the community of scholars which requires of him to be a free conscience, detached, impartial, independent; the politician wants to win votes from the electorate which asks of him to be moral. The secular state imposes its own moral, which doesn’t deny universal values but it actually changes their meaning. The criterion that no one can deviate from is the one of political correctness. In this paper, I shall focus on the way in which the Orthodox Church is involved in solving the crisis of the world, starting from key issues such as the human being, communion and sin. Man is invited to live inside the principle that creates the communion: the Logos. Therefore the solution would be adopting a Christ-centric perspective on life.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Несмотря на то, что имя Бога настойчиво присутствует как в академическом, так и в политическом дискурсе, реальность такова, что Бог, похоже, действительно «умер», как некогда утверждали Ницше, Сартр и Камю, поскольку между посланием и настоящими устремлениями его авторов зияет разрыв, который ставит мир под знак хаоса и боли. Я попыталась «просканировать» степень честности некоторых влиятельных интеллектуалов нашего времени и некоторых политиков, которые объявляют себя христианами и привносят в идеологию своих партий христианские понятия и ценности. Я назвала их «оппортунистами Неба», потому что эти интеллектуалы превратили Бога в предмет анализа, подобный любому другому предмету, а политики произносят Его имя для того, чтобы добиться успеха на выборах. Мы видим, как они забираются Богу на плечи, чтобы построить собственную карьеру: интеллектуал хочет признания со стороны ученого сообщества, которое предполагает, что он должен быть беспристрастным, непредвзятым, независимым; политик желает завоевать голоса электората, требующего от него быть нравственным. Секулярное государство устанавливает свою собственную мораль, которая не отрицает универсальные ценности, но, по сути, меняет их смысл. Критерием, от которого никто не может отклониться, становится критерий политической корректности . В данной статье я исследую то, каким образом в дело преодоления мирового кризиса вовлечена православная церковь, начиная с решения ключевых вопросов о человеческом бытии, об общности веры и о грехе. Человеку предложена жизнь внутри Логоса - принципа, творящего общность веры. Отсюда следует важность принятия христоцентричной жизненной перспективы.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>communion</kwd><kwd>opportunism</kwd><kwd>Orthodoxy</kwd><kwd>politics</kwd><kwd>secularization</kwd><kwd>state</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>государство</kwd><kwd>общность веры</kwd><kwd>оппортунизм</kwd><kwd>политика</kwd><kwd>православие</kwd><kwd>секуляризация</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Martini C.M., Eco U. What do the non-believers believe in? Translated by Dragoş Zamosteanu. Polirom, Iaşi, 2011.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Cherry M.J. The Secular Fundamentalist State. Text presented at the International Symposium «Religion and Politics. 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