Reconciliation is important for a life in community. It is possible if those involved in a dispute are willing to change their views and move from tribal logic to universal one. The Gospel did such a passage by calling to a paradigm shift: μετανοεϊτε. This paper answers to the question: How is the Gospel’s μετανοεϊτε translated into the sociopolitical life. It is done in three steps. First, it shows the meaning of μετανοεϊτε, then how does it work in Western countries and how the dissidents of communism encouraged people to do it, especially Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Finally, there is a talk about how is μετανοεϊτε realised in Slovenia. When it comes to such deeds as the mass killings around the world, we are within the principles of universal ethics, when we are dealing with similar cases in our country, then prevails the tribal logic. Therefore the society is torn, values are in crisis and reconciliation, beginning with μετανοεϊτε, really needed.
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The leading idea of the work Grounded heaven is that religions are rooted in culture and society. It does not mean that they could be reduced to these, as they were without their own spirit and essence or that they could exist without being oriented to the Ultimate Reality that is beyond culture and society. Members of religions mostly emphasize and see just this Ultimate Reality, especially in a secular environment that aggressively denies it. In doing so, they are often unaware that expressions of their belief system are nonetheless grounded – i.e. culturally and socially/ideologically conditioned. This book drawls attention to this blank point of belief systems, primarily, though not exclusively, in the case of Catholicism. It is in fact facing now practically most of existing cultures and societies/ideologies and has of all belief systems the longest experience and reflection on this topic.
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