03 — The Dogmatician

Justin Popović’s central monument: the three-volume Dogmatics of the Orthodox Church, and the single idea that organizes it — Christ the God-Man (Bogočovek, Theanthropos), from whom the whole of his theology radiates.

This section treats Justin as what he most fundamentally was: a dogmatic theologian, the author of the first comprehensive Orthodox systematic theology written in Serbian, and one of the major dogmaticians of twentieth-century Orthodoxy. The first file describes the Dogmatika itself — its three volumes, its scope, its patristic method, and its place in the modern Orthodox recovery of the Fathers. The second isolates the organizing center of the whole: the God-Man, the Theanthropos, in whom, for Justin, every question of theology, anthropology, and culture finds its answer.

Contents

File	Description
the-dogmatics-of-the-orthodox-church.md	The three-volume Dogmatika Pravoslavne Crkve (1932, 1935, 1978): scope, method, patristic density, and reception
christ-the-god-man.md	Bogočovek / Theanthropos as the organizing center; the theanthropic economy and the goal of theosis

See Also

• 02 — Student Years and Monastic Formation — the Belgrade chair from which the Dogmatics was written
• 04 — Philosophy from the God-Man — the God-Man idea turned against European humanism
• Orthodoxy: Theosis — deification, the goal of the theanthropic economy