#Saint Cyril of Jerusalem

The article analyses the catechetical model of the Church Fathers, from Saint Justin the Martyr and Saint Hippolytus to Saint John Chrysostom and Isidore of Seville, beginning with the primary catechumenate and identifying, through the work of the scholar Francesco Trisoglio, eight patristic catechetical approaches proposed as an alternative to the crisis in contemporary preaching.

Divine providence, understood as God’s all-encompassing love and care for creation, is examined in relation to the freedom of rational beings, to sin, suffering and the deification of humankind, drawing upon the works of Saint John of Damascus, Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Justin Popovich and Thomas Spidlik, culminating in the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist.

This article analyses the relationship between dogma and ethos in the tradition of the Orthodox Church, examining how secularisation – from Paul of Samosata and the schism of Novatus right up to the modern era – gives rise to two opposing distortions of this correlation: fundamentalism and liberalism. The reader comes to understand that both extremes share a common root in secularism and represent deviations from the authentic synthesis of dogma and ethos, as illustrated by Scripture, the Holy Fathers and hymnography.