Eating, Eschatology, Expectation: Fasting and Salvation in Serbian Orthodox Christianity
Eating, Eschatology, Expectation: Fasting and Salvation in Serbian Orthodox Christianity
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饮食、末世论、期望：塞尔维亚东正教的禁食与救赎
作者：
Nicholas Lackenby
塞尔维亚中部城市克拉列沃的东正教徒通过努力过一种“礼拜式生活”来"工作“，这种生活围绕着参加神圣的礼拜仪式、定期领圣餐和禁食来构建。然而，在这些致力于去教会的圈子里，很少有关于第二次降临的明确的末世论讨论。本文认为，强度禁食的做法，在礼仪的日常不仅产生更接近的期望，但也提供了潜在的一瞥神圣的现在，从而消除了对一个有远见的末世论的愿景的重点。通过协调一致地专注于在当下为自己工作，礼仪的日常生活不需要抽象的、连续的未来来赋予它意义。但是，就像这样的生活方式是一条救赎之路一样，它也产生了社会分化：去教堂的东正教徒发现自己与当代塞尔维亚社会格格不入。
ABSTRACT Practising Orthodox Christians in the central Serbian town of Kraljevo ‘work on’ their salvation by striving to live a ‘liturgical life’ structured around attending the Divine Liturgy, taking Divine Communion regularly, and fasting. However, in these committed churchgoing circles there is little explicit eschatological discussion about the Second Coming. The paper argues that the intensity of fasting practices in the liturgical everyday not only produce more proximate expectations, but also provide potential glimpses of the Divine now, thus removing the emphasis on a far-sighted eschatological vision. With a concerted focus on working on oneself in the present, the liturgical day-to-day does not need an abstract, sequential future to imbue it with meaning. But, just as such a lifestyle is a path to salvation, so too it produces social differentiation: churchgoing Orthodox find themselves out of kilter with contemporary Serbian society.