<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article discusses the issue of Euthanasia from the perspective of an Orthodox theology of communion. It demonstrates, that issues related to Euthanasia including moral and ethical issues cannot be limited to the individual and his context, but are in fact issues that should and do incorporate the wider community. The emphasis of Orthodox Theology on Communion and on the community could present possibilities of how to deal with Euthanasia by transferring the debate from the context of the individual and his or her choice or choice of other immediate individuals to an ecclesially centred platform. Just as there is a tendency for greater individualisation in society there is a tendency to moral and ethical individualisation and atomisation.</p></abstract>

The article discusses the issue of Euthanasia from the perspective of an Orthodox theology of communion. It demonstrates, that issues related to Euthanasia including moral and ethical issues cannot be limited to the individual and his context, but are in fact issues that should and do incorporate the wider community. The emphasis of Orthodox Theology on Communion and on the community could present possibilities of how to deal with Euthanasia by transferring the debate from the context of the individual and his or her choice or choice of other immediate individuals to an ecclesially centred platform. Just as there is a tendency for greater individualisation in society there is a tendency to moral and ethical individualisation and atomisation.

Euthanasia and Orthodox theology of Communion

PhD, teacher of Byzantine theology and philosophy at the Orthodox Theological Faculty of the Prešov University, Prešov Slovakia. Address: S.H. Vajanského 44, Michalovce, 071 01, Slovakia

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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The article discusses the issue of Euthanasia from the perspective of an Orthodox theology of communion. It demonstrates, that issues related to Euthanasia...

Euthanasia and Orthodox theology of Communion

Published Online: Jan 27, 2015

Page range: 214 - 226

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2014-0117

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