Mirko Đorđević

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Mirko Đorđević
Born29 November 1938
Brod, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died(2014-04-18)18 April 2014, (aged 75), Šimanovci, Serbia
OccupationAuthor, professor
SpouseMira Đorđević
Children2 (son and daughter)

Mirko Đorđević (

heterodox in his Christology, a critic of the Serbian Orthodox Church, its nationalism and advocate for secularism
. Đorđević was an opponent of political intolerances in Serbian society.

Biography

Đorđević was born in the Belčine

mahala, located in the Crna Trava municipality, a part of the Jablanica District, on 29 November 1938[1] to Čedomir and Rajinka Đorđević. In 1964, Đorđević graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, having previously studied Yugoslavian Literature. He received his master's degree in 1975 and became a Serbo-Croatian teacher in a Šimanovci primary school
. He also taught Serbo-Croatian Language and Literature at the Belgrade Pedagogical Academy before he had retired.

He was married to Mirjana, with whom he had two children, a son and a daughter, respectively called Aleksandar and Ksenija. Đorđević died in 2014, aged 75.

Points of view

Criticism of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Đorđević championed ecumenism and, having vociferously opposed the right-wing nikolajevci (followers of Nikolaj Velimirović) and justinovci (followers of Justin Popović) factions within the Serbian Orthodox Church (hereafter SPC), pushed for evangelisation, not clericalisation, terming those in favour of the latter as "captives of phyletism". He considered the SPC to be a surrogate for the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in post-Titoist Yugoslavia.[2] Staunchly opposed to Milošević, Đorđević found himself disheartened by the ostensible support of the SPC for his regime. Ultimately, Đorđević believed the Church to be a salvific institution and as such, disqualified from becoming too involved with local politics.

Historical Jesus

While remaining true to the traditional Christian belief in regard to Jesus' divinity, exemplified by the title

Jewish. He also believed that Jesus had been in a romantic relationship with Mary Magdalene and opted for a figurative interpretation of his resurrection, rather than a literal one.[3]

Bibliography (selection)

  • Осмех богиње Клио (The Smile of the Goddess Clio), Belgrade 1986.
  • Знаци времена (Signs of Times), Belgrade 1998.
  • Слобода и спас: хришћански персонализам (Freedom and Salvation: Christian Personalism), Belgrade 1999.
  • La Voix d'une autre Serbie : L'Anti-journal (The Voice of Another Serbia: The Anti-Journal), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés 1999.
  • Ратни крст српске цркве (The Crusade of
    Serbian Church
    ), Belgrade 2001.
  • Легенда о трулом Западу (Legend of the Rotten West), Belgrade 2001.
  • Кишобран патријарха Павла: критика паланачког ума (Umbrella of Patriarch Pavle: Criticism on Provincial Mind), Belgrade 2010.[4]

References

  1. ^ Vasić, Miloš (18 April 2014). "Mirko Đorđević (1938 – 2014)". veme.com.
  2. ^ "Crkva umesto komiteta". Danas.rs. 4 December 2009.
  3. ^ Đorđević, Mirko. "Uskrs". Peščanik.
  4. ^ catalogue of National Library of Serbia, Retrieved 2017-05-29.
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